Franca Mancinelli was born in Fano, Italy, in 1981. Her first two books of poetry, Mala kruna (2007) and Pasta madre (2013), were awarded several prizes in Italy. In 2018 appeared the original Italian edition of this new collection of prose poems, Libretto di transito. The Little Book of Passage represents the first appearance in English of writing that has made Mancinelli one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Italian literature. Her writing has been translated into Spanish, Arabic, and Slovene, and her first two books have been recently reprinted as A?un'ora di sonno da qui (At an hour's sleep from here) by Italic &?Pequod.

Books by Franca Mancinelli:

Other poems on the web by Franca Mancinelli:
Seven poems
from the sequence All the eyes that I have opened
"Out Of The Fire"