ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rossella Riccobono is a graduate of the University of Padua (Italy) and has a PhD in poetry from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). She writes both poetry and short stories and is working on the publication of her first poetry volume ‘States of mind’. Her poems have recently been published in Real Life Bird Song (Wai-te-ata Press), First Wellington International Poetry Festival Anthology (HeadworX), and The New New Zealanders: an anthology of immigrant experiences in NZ (Inkweed). She is a very proud mother of Gianluca (6) and Hannah Elisa (2).