Vittoria repetto is a native downtown lesbian butch who grew up in the Greenwich Village. She is the daughter of immigrant Italian parents; from Liguria on her father's side and Lombardy on her mother's side.
Her poems have been chosen as "Editor's Choice" in the Paterson Literary Review for six times since 2003.
She was a judge in the 2005 Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry & Thomas Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Vittoria repetto was the vice president and the newsletter editor of the Italian American Writers Association from 1992 to 2012 and she has been hosting the Women's/Trans' Poetry Jam at Bluestockings Bookstore since its opening in 1999.