Gisella Laterza

Gisella Laterza lives in Bergamo—or more precisely, in a downtown café where she spends her time writing. When she’s not writing, she teaches Italian and Latin at a high school and leads creative writing workshops for boys and girls aged 6 to 99. She has published novels, short stories for school anthologies, biographies, and a children’s adaptation of the Divine Comedy (Einaudi Ragazzi). Among her most successful series is Three Friends and a Diary (Tre amiche per un diario, Il Battello a Vapore). Under the pseudonym Ella Archer, she wrote Abyss and Enchantment, a fantasy romance currently being translated in France, the Netherlands, and Spain. The book was a finalist for the ILfest Prize (Munich, 2025) and the Romance Book Party Awards (Naples, 2025).