Livia Franchini

Livia Franchini is a writer and translator from Tuscany, Italy. Her recent publications include the novel Shelf Life (Doubleday, 2019), her English-language translation of Lorenza Mazzetti’s The Sky Is Falling (Another Gaze, 2023), and the anthology Too Little / Too Hard: Writers on the Intersections of Work, Time and Value, co-edited with Lucy Mercer (Peninsula Press, 2026). Livia is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, where she also coordinates The Goldsmiths Prize. She lives in south east London.