Alessandra Bava

Alessandra Bava is a poet and a translator living in the Eternal city. She holds an MA in American Literature. She is the author of Guerrilla Blues (Ensemble 2012), Nocturne (Pulcinoelefante 2013), A rima armata (Gilgamesh 2016). Three of her chapbooks have appeared in the US: They Talk About Death (2014), Diagnosis (Dancing Girl Press 2015) and Love & Other Demons (Dancing Girl Press 2017). She has edited and translated A New Anthology of American Poets (Ensemble 2015) and Anthology of Contemporary American Women Poets (Ensemble 2018). She has translated into Italian poetry by Nikky Finney, Joy Harjo, Patricia Smith, Diane Seuss, George Szirtes, Ocean Vuong, Michel Butor, Jack Hirschman, Alejandro Murguía, and many others. She is currently writing the biography of a contemporary American poet.