Born and raised in Naples, Italy, Sara Marinelli is a writer, translator, and educator based in San Francisco. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Rome and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her writing appears in Blue Mesa Review, New American Writing, and many Italian publications. She teaches Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco and Humanities at San Francisco State University. Every month, she co-curates and co-hosts the Hazel Reading Series, an all-women reading series in the Bay area. Sara is currently working on her first novel.