Giulia Mastrantoni undertook a PhD in Creative Writing at Monash University. She is investigating ways to represent experiences of sexual victimization. She is co-editor-in-chief of Colloquy, she is one of the editors of Verge 2020, and she is a book reviewer for several Italian online literary communities. She always credits her endeavours to Topolino, the Italian Mickey Mouse comics that initiated her to the world of written stories. 9http://www.swampwriting.com/?page_id=7040