Grazia Gironella was born in 1963 in Bologna, Italy, and now lives at the foot of the Eastern Alps. She loves nature, eastern cultures and martial arts, and is fond of written words, both as a reader and as a writer. In addition to the novel "Searching for Goran", to the present day she has published for the Italian market two short stories ("Tarja dei lupi" and "La pace di Jacum", 2019), an essay on writing ("Nel cuore della storia", 2019) and the novels "Cercando Goran" and "Veronica c'è". In her blog Scrivere Vivere (https://scriverevivere.it) she shares with fellow authors and wannabes the joys and problems of writing.