Born in Rome, she lives between the city in which she was born, and Sardinia. She works for the Swiss University of Lugano. She has worked for various magazines and newspapers such as Il Manifesto, Linea d�ombra, and Nuovi Argomenti. Her publications include the book of verses entitled Residenze invernali (Crocetti, 1992); books of essays entitled Cosa sono gli anni (Fazi, 1997), La luce delle cose (Feltrinelli, 2000) and Tre stazioni (Lieto Colle, 2003); the book of translations and poems Nomi distanti (Empiria, 1998); poetry books entitled Notti di pace occidentale (Donzelli, 1999), Il catalogo della gioia (Donzelli, 2003) and Dal balcone del corpo (Mondadori, 2007, Napoli Book of the Year Award) For Philippe Jaccottet she curated the book La parola Russia (Donzelli, 2004). Her next book, soon to be published, is an art book on contemporary artists including Bill Viola.