Diego Valeri. Diego Valeri, 1887-1976, was an Italian poet, journalist, writer, scholar, critic, and translator of French and German literature. During his life, he authored 17 collections of poetry, 7 books of literary and art criticism, 5 books of creative and travel essays, including the best-selling A Sentimental Guide to Venice, and Venetian Fantasies, and literary translations from the German and French which include Flaubert’s Madame Bovary Stendhal’s The Red and The Black poems by Goethe and essays by LaFontaine. Diego Valeri is fondly remembered as “the poet of Venice” for his love and dedication to the city in which he lived for almost all his life and that featured dominantly in his writing. The Diego Valeri Prize in Poetry is to this day a prestigious award in Italy, dedicated to the poet's memory.
Laura Valeri. Laura Valeri is the author of three story collections and a book of essays. Her most recent books are After Life as a Human (Rain Chain Press, 2020) and The Dead Still Here, (SFASU Press 2018). Laura’s stories, essays, and translations appear in numerous journals, including The Festival Review, Cagibi, PRISM, The Forge, Your Impossible Voice, Conjunctions, Waccamaw, South85, Assay, and others. Laura Valeri teaches creative writing at Georgia Southern University and she is the founding editor of Wraparound South, a literary journal.
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