Linda Ghio (born 1988) received her PhD in creative writing at London Metropolitan University in November 2020, which her first novel LA CITTA DI ACQUA E VETRO grew out of. She also has a First Class Honours Degree in Creative Writing from London Met. She writes short stories, poetry and novels. She is also a translator from English to Italian and Italian to English. Linda has contributed to a selection of poetry and narrative anthologies. In 2011 she was awarded the Sandra Ashman Prize for her steampunk/dystopia short story ‘Strays’. In 2013 her travel short story ‘Licata’ was also awarded the Sandra Ashman Prize and the London Metropolitan Vice-Chancellor’s Prize. In 2014 her poem ‘Intern’s Sestina’ was again awarded the Sandra Ashman Prize. The suggested English title for LA CITTA DI ACQUA E VETRO is THE DARK WAYS OF LOWER VENICE: A Cornelia Furlan Investigation. She has nearly completed her second novel starring Cornelia Furlan, also set in the alternative Venice she brings to life so brilliantly in the first.