Gisella Laterza

Gisella Laterza lives in Bergamo—or more precisely, in a café downtown 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 kids and teens (ages 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 popular series is Tre amiche per un diario (Il Battello a Vapore). Under the pseudonym Ella Archer, she wrote Abissi e incanto, a fantasy romance currently being translated into French, Dutch, and Spanish. The novel is a finalist for both the ILfest Award (Munich, 2025) and the Romance Book Party Awards (Naples, 2025).