Serena PiccoliSerena Piccoli is an Italian poet, playwright, photographer, and artistic director. She writes both in Italian and English about contemporary political and social issues with a touch of irony. Her previous chapbook, silviotrump, was published by Locoo Chaps (USA). Her poems and plays are featured in anthologies and magazines in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Nigeria, Italy and Romania. Her plays have been successfully staged throughout Italy. She is invited to festivals all over the world. Her photographs have been featured in magazines and art galleries all over the world. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the International Poetry and Sister Arts Festival in Cesena (Italy) along with Giorgia Monti. She holds a column of Italian contemporary poetry in the historical and most prominent cultural magazine in Romania, Tribuna. She is the co-founder (with Giorgia Monti) of the Association Lestordite which aims to spread poetry (Italy). She is the Italian translator of poet and professor Adeena Karasick along with Pina Piccolo. She has also translated African women poets into Italian. She is the co-founder of La Betonica Theatre Company (Padova, Italy) along with Alberto Moni. She enjoys writing collaborative poems with William Allegrezza. She holds two bachelor degrees (one as an interpreter and translator, Padova, Italy; one in Performing arts, top grade cum laude, Ferrara, Italy) and one master degree in Theatre and Performing Arts, top grade, IUAV University of Venice. She loves nature, friendship, the sea and all the arts. She enjoys good food, wine, chocolate, summer, cycling, swimming and travelling. She can't stand social injustice. www.serenapiccoli.com Read More Read Less