Sara Marinelli is a San Francisco based writer who grew up in Naples, Italy. She is a 2024-2025 Brown Handler Fellow at the San Francisco Public Library and a Teaching Artist at the San Francisco Opera. Her writing in English is published in New American Writing, Blue Mesa Review, and Pummarol; her work in Italian appears in Nazione Indiana, Leggendaria, Alias, and il Manifesto. She is the author of the audio-documentary “Letters to Italy,” and teaches comparative literature and creative writing at the University of San Francisco.