Soffiati via/Blown Away

Giorgio Mobili is a poet, translator, and literary critic. Born in Milan, Italy, he has lived in the US since 1999. In his lyrical production, he has persistently explored, from a multi-lingual perspective, and with surrealistic flair, how cultural displacement reshapes one's inner geography through the intricate mobilization of memory, fantasy, and desire. His Italian poetry has appeared in several journals and five published collections, and has been included in the anthology Poets of the Italian Diaspora (Fordham UP, 2013). His first Spanish-language collection came out in Santiago, Chile, in 2014. His English poetry has appeared in The Tipton Poetry Journal, Pank Magazine, The Hiram Poetry Review, Ariel, and Gradiva. This is his first full-length collection in English.

Allison Grimaldi Donahue is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in Words Without Borders, BOMB, Mousse Magazine The Brooklyn Rail, Electric Literature, Funhouse Magazine, The Fanzine and other journals. She has been an NEA Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, a Bakeless Fellow at the Bread Loaf Translator's Conference and an artist in residence at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. She is fiction editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse and associate translation editor at Anomaly Press. She is a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School. Her chapbook Body to Mineral came out in 2016 with Publication Studio Vancouver. She teaches writing at John Cabot University, Rome.