Whereas Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, poet, essayist, novelist, is originally from Wisconsin, she lived several years in Palo Alto, California, and then moved to Parma, Italy, where she has resided and worked for almost three decades.

She is the author of many books of distinguished, award winning poetry, a work on living in Italy, Mother Tongue, Am American Life in Italy (North Point Press, 2003), favorably reviewed in The New Yorker and author of a forthcoming book on Italy, The Other Side of the Tiber (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013).

A collection of her essays was published last year in Italy, L'oceano e dentro di noi (Moretti & Vitali, 2011). Wallis Wilde-Menozzi's poetry has been published in the Mississippi Review, Southwest Review, Notre Dame Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Granta, Kenyon Review, Agni, et cetera. Wallis Wilde-Menozzi is on the steering committee and is active in the programs of the Chateau Lavigny, Writer's Residence, at Lavigny, Switzerland.