from Watering the Plant of Dreaming

Elisa Biagini, the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Da una crepa (2014), lives in Florence, Italy, after having taught and studied in the U.S. for several years. Her poems have been translated into many languages, and volumes of her work have been published in Spain and the U.S., where in 2014 The Guest in the Wood (Chelsea Editions, 2013) won the Best Translated Book Award given by Three Percent. A translator from the English (of Alicia Ostriker, Sharon Olds, and Lucile Clifton, among others), she has published an anthology of contemporary American poetry entitled Nuovi Poeti Americani (Einaudi, 2006). She teaches art history and writing at NYU-Florence. (updated 10/2016)

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, an American poet, lives in Parma, Italy. For more than thirty years, her poetry has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Notre Dame Review, The Southern Review, Mississippi Review, London Review, AGNI, The Cream City Review, and elsewhere. In 2013 she published The Other Side of the Tiber (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), her second book of nonfiction, and a novel, Toscanelli’s Ray (Cadmus Editions). A collection of her essays has been translated into Italian. (10/2016)