Marilena Fonti

Born in L'Aquila, she remained there until 1970, when she moved with her family to Hartford, Connecticut, in the north-eastern part of the United States. After attending classical high school in her hometown, she completed her high school studies in the USA, attending the last year of high school. Upon graduation, she enrolled at the University of Connecticut, where she earned a B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures and an M.A. (Master of Arts) in Comparative Literature She currently lives in Viterbo, where she has taught at a Classical-Language High School until September 2020, after having also taught for several years at the Army Non-Commissioned Officers School and at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo as an adjunct professor. She has to her credit the publication of the translation of a selection of short stories by the American writer Thomas C. Wolfe, titled The lost boy, published with La Caravella Editrice, of Viterbo in 2009; the translation of a selection of poems from the collection Interlunar, by Margaret Atwood (1939- ), published by the Centro Culturale L'Ortica of Forlì with the title Interlunare in 2014; the publication of short stories in some anthologies with Laura Capone Editore, La Caravella Editrice, Giulio Perrone Editore, EEE Edizioni, Historica, GOX, Jona Editore, in some cases as a result of literary competitions; and, finally, the publication of the collection of short stories Belle ombre imperfette, with EEE-Edizioni Tripla E, in 2019, a collection that, in the same year, ranked second in the literary prize EquiLibri, was among the shortlisted works of the Premio Letterario Residenze Gregoriane and in 2021 received the Special Prize Amarganta team of the Premio Letterario Amarganta. In 2022 she has published the novel I punti ciechi, EEE- Edizioni Tripla E, awarded an Honorable Mention as unpublished work at the Residenze Gregoriane Literary Prize. Also in 2022 she has published the essay Walter Serner and the Tiger The novel of a dadaist, with Rosabianca Edizioni.