Johanna Bishop was born in Chicago in 1974, grew up in Pennsylvania, and has been living in Tuscany since 1998. She primarily translates texts by contemporary Italian artists, curators and critics. In the field of poetry, her translations of poems by Gherardo Bortolotti, Franco Buffoni, Marco Giovenale, Andrea Inglese, Marina Massenz, Michele Zaffarano and Laura Zanetti have appeared over the years in the bilingual review Here: Notes from the Present. She has also translated works by Maria Grazia Calandrone for the theatrical performances Gernika and Senza bagaglio. In collaboration with Andrea Sirotti, she co-translated Danza del ventre a Tel Aviv / Belly Dancing in Tel Aviv by English-language Israeli poet Karen Alkalay-Gut into Italian (Kolibris, 2010).