Poet and author of children’s books and plays, Mia Lecomte lives in Rome. Among her most recent poetry publications are Autobiografie non vissute (2004) and Terra di risulta (2009), from which a part of this translation was taken. She is an honourary member of the French Association “Confluences poétiques,” and her poems have been translated and published in Italy and abroad. She edited the anthology Ai confini dei verso – Poesia della migrazione in italiano (2006), Sempre ai confini del verso – Dispatri poetici in italiano (2011), and co-edited A New Map – The Poetry of Migrant Writers in Italy (2011) with Luigi Bonaffini.