Federica Marzi was born in Trieste, Italy and lives there today, studying foreign languages and writing. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies and magazines in Italy, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
My Home Somewhere Else is her debut novel.
Jim Hicks is editor of the
Massachusetts Review. In recent years, he has served as both chair and graduate program director of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His translations include short pieces by Italo Calvino, Ananda Devi, Juan José Saer, Izet Sarajlic, and longer works by Erri De Luca. His
Lessons from Sarajevo: A War Stories Primer was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2013.