Born in Rome in 1979. writer, poet, and painter Ilaria Giovinazzo holds a degree in literature, is an anthropologist and scholar of comparative religions. Teaches literature in high schools. She has published the following novels Lost Souls (Effedue, 2001), I can’t let you go away (Prospettiva, 2005), Women of destiny (Besa, 2007) and the poetry collections Like a lotus flower (Ensemble, 2020), The simmetry of the bodies (Ensemble, 2021), The religion of beauty (PeQuod, 2023). In 2022 she also published the illustrated book for children Life. Ten important things (Fuorilinea) and in 2023 she edited the plaquette, published by Ensemble, of the event “Poetic symphonies concert for strings and winds” conceived and directed by her. She translated from English the poems of the Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded in the volume Pure Light. Mystical songs of Kashmiri tantrism (Jouvence 2024). Her poems have been published in anthologies, specialized magazines and literary blogs (De sur a sur, Atelier, Metaphorica, Transiti Poetici, Formafluens, Inverso Giornale di Poesia, La Bottega della Poesia de La Repubblica, Centro Cultural Tina Modotti). She has received awards, mentions and honorable mentions in various competitions, including the Ossi di seppia International Prize for Unpublished Poetry, the L’Arte in versi Prize and the Lorenzo Montano Prize. She has been translated into English, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali and Kannada. She lives and works in the Sabine hills.