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About Livia Franchini

LIVIA FRANCHINI is a writer and translator from Tuscany Italy. Selected publications include The Quietus 3:AM The White Review LESTE Hotel PEN Transmissions and the anthologies On Bodies (3 of Cups) and Wretched Strangers (Boiler House Press). She has translated Natalia Ginzburg James Tiptree Jr. and Michael Donaghy among many others. Livia is one of the inaugural writers-in-residence of the Connecting Emerging Literary Artist project funded by the European Union which will see her work translated into 6 languages. She has performed from her work internationally most notably at Faber Social Standon Calling Lowlands and Hay Festival. Livia is currently at work on a funded PhD in experimental womens writing at Goldsmiths. Her debut novel SHELF LIFE was published by Doubleday in the UK in August 2019.