Letizia Muratori is a critically acclaimed Italian writer from Rome. The author of over ten books, she has received numerous prizes for her novels and short story collections, including the Mondello Prize, the Ceppo Pistoia Prize, and the Roma Prize. Her story “Bad-Time Dimitri” originally appeared in her 2018 collection of unconventional ghost stories, Spifferi (Ghost Drafts), which won the 2019 Renato Fucini Prize.