Livia Franchini is a writer and translator from Tuscany, Italy. She has translated Michael Donaghy, Natalia Ginzburg and James Tiptree Jr. among many others. She is the author of one novel, SHELF LIFE (Transworld, 2019) and one poetry pamphlet, OUR AVAILABLE MAGIC (Makina Books, 2019). The Italian translation of Shelf Life, GUSCI (Mondadori, trans. Veronica Raimo) won the Premio Letterario Pisa first novel award in 2020.