I write.
You read.
Novels, short stories, long features, non-fiction books, investigative pieces. Writing is what I do and I love, what fuels and feeds me. I write in English and Italian. I publish in Italy, the United States and, recently, in Canada. I read all the time, in five languages. And I move around. I lived in four countries and explored countless, alone and with my family.
I HAVE projects
THE WAY HOME
Laura doesn’t know where she is. Literally. Most days she can’t find her way around places she’s lived for months, and the life she thought she had. But that’s not even her biggest problem. The real trouble is that she doesn’t know why.
The Way Home is a novella exploring a woman’s sense of loss, and of being lost. I’m turning it into a novel. In English.
WILD ORCHID
With this crime novel, I’m returning to mystery and to Panama.
A domestic-violence survivor, Elisabetta flees to a Caribbean paradise only to find herself targeted by a serial killer.
When her only two friends in the hard-partying expat bubble disappear, she embarks on a quest for answers with Steve, a short-fused former Navy intelligence officer drawn in to the chase by the anonymous threats leveled at his family. In English.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
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Toronto Journal
Toronto Journal published my latest short story, The Way to the Hills, on its Summer 2025 issue and later nominated it for the Pushcart Prize.
I PuBLISHED books
Powerful women had to make costly compromises in order to reach the top. I told their stories through interviews with Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Angela Merkel, and Michelle Bachelet. Published in Italian.
After presiding over a jury for a murder trial in Newark, I wrote this creative nonfiction exploration of the effects of drugs and drug-related incarceration on the Black community in the Greater New York area. Published in Italian.
A crime novel rooted in Panama’s social inequality, it shows locals and Indigenous People come to terms with the foreign-money-fueled real estate boom of the early 2000s, a time of speculative frenzy and unchecked ambition. Published in Italian.
THEY READ AND THEY SAID
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
MILAN, ITALY
“Written as a John Grisham-style legal thriller, Ragionevole Dubbio (San Paolo) is a true journey into American justice seen through the eyes of a journalist.”
Review for Ragionevole Dubbio
RAI
ROMA, ITALY
“A true story experienced first-hand by the author; an inner-city legal thriller with a social message.”
Review for Ragionevole Dubbio
AMAZON.COM
“This is already the third book I’ve read by the same author who manages to range between different genres. In this book there is a great ability to make the reader perceive the environments, scents, and colors of Panama. The story is never predictable and presents continuous surprises. The characters are presented in their complexity throughout the story. A must-read.”
Amazon review for Morte in Paradiso
LA FELTRINELLI IBS
MILAN, ITALY
“From Hillary Clinton to Angela Merkel, from Condoleezza Rice to Cristina Kirchner, from Michelle Bachelet to Ségolène Royal, the author offers us a series of juicy portraits of female politicians. Strategies, secrets, weaknesses, everything we don’t know about the protagonists of world politics is revealed, in an ironic and cutting way.”
IBS.it review for Potere Rosa