Diana Thow is an award-winning translator from Italian. Her translations include Amelia Rosselli’s Hospital Series (Otis Press/Seismicity Books, 2017), Impromptu (Guernica Editions, 2014), and Elisa Biagini’s The Guest in the Wood (Chelsea Editions, 2013). She holds an MFA in translation from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, where is is a lecturer in Italian Studies.