Federica SantiniFederica Santini is Professor of Italian and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University. Her scholarly articles and translations have been published in numerous journals in the U.S. and Italy. Her own poetry and short fiction has appearedinternationally in over 50 journals and anthologies. She has authored or co-edited six volumes, among which her monograph, Io era una bella figura una volta: Viaggio nella poesia di ricerca del secondo Novecento (2013), and the English language, annotated edition of I Novissimi. Poetry for the Sixties, with Luigi Ballerini (2017), as well as a poetry chapbook, Unearthed (2021).