Tiziana Lo Porto was born in Bolzano in 1972. She lives between Rome and New York, where she writes and translates. She has translated books by Charles Bukowski, Tom Wolfe, Jim Carroll, James Franco, Francesca Marciano, Kim Gordon and Patti Smith. She is the author, together with Daniele Marotta, of the graphic novel Superzelda. The Drawn Life of Zelda Fitzgerald (minimum fax, 2011). She edited the volume of interviews with Bernardo Bertolucci Cinema the First Time. Conversations on Art and Life (minimum fax, 2016). She writes about books and cinema for the periodicals Il venerdì, D La Repubblica delle donne and Linus.