Nikolai Prestai was born in 1990 in Russia and adopted by an Italian couple at the age of eight. He currently lives in Rome. His first book, Dasvidania, won the 2022 Massarosa Prize. His forthcoming novel is entitled La coscienza delle piante.
Teresa Fiore is the Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University. She is the author of Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies.
Daniela Chaudhary Fiore is a fine arts student at LaGuardia High School in New York City. An older adoptee from Colombia to the U.S., she is trilingual: her first mother tongue is Spanish, her second mother tongue is Italian, and the language she adopted is English.
Loredana Polezzi is the Alfonse M. D'Amato Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies at SUNY–Stony Brook. She is a coeditor of Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory, and Translation and author of Translating Travel: Contemporary Italian Travel Writing in English Translation.
