Julia Nelsen

Julia Nelsen translates from and into Italian. A San Francisco native, she holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and a masters in European languages from the University of Milan, where she studied on multi-year fellowship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her work has appeared in Circumference, Two Lines, Chicago Review, Firmament, and elsewhere. A Very Cold Winter is her first translated book.