Luca Paci was born in Novara, north Italy in 1970. Paci is currently the Co-Director of the Italian Cultural Centre Wales, the Italian Film Festival Cardiff and part of the executive board of Wales PEN Cymru. For the past five years he has been teaching Italian Studies at Swansea and Cardiff University. Paci is a translingual poet, editor and translator into English, Welsh and Italian. He has published a number of essays, articles and poems in English and Italian. Among his translations are La Ragazza Carla / A Girl Named Carla by Elio Pagliarani (Troubadour, 2006) and Bondo by Menna Elfyn (Ludo, 2021).

'a vital window into the soul of our neighbours in this post-Brexit Europe' - Poetry Wales; 'These are excursions I intend to keep making, poets whose work I hope to find more of and enjoy.' - Tears in the Fence; 'a welcome addition to the bookshelves' - World Literature Today

Luca Paci was born in Novara, north Italy in 1970. Paci is currently the Co-Director of the Italian Cultural Centre Wales, the Italian Film Festival Cardiff and part of the executive board of Wales PEN Cymru. For the past five years he has been teaching Italian Studies at Swansea and Cardiff University. Paci is a translingual poet, editor and translator into English, Welsh and Italian. He has published a number of essays, articles and poems in English and Italian. Among his translations are La Ragazza Carla / A Girl Named Carla by Elio Pagliarani (Troubadour, 2006) and Bondo by Menna Elfyn (Ludo, 2021).

'a vital window into the soul of our neighbours in this post-Brexit Europe' - Poetry Wales; 'These are excursions I intend to keep making, poets whose work I hope to find more of and enjoy.' - Tears in the Fence; 'a welcome addition to the bookshelves' - World Literature Today

Luca Paci was born in Novara, north Italy in 1970. Paci is currently the Co-Director of the Italian Cultural Centre Wales, the Italian Film Festival Cardiff and part of the executive board of Wales PEN Cymru. For the past five years he has been teaching Italian Studies at Swansea and Cardiff University. Paci is a translingual poet, editor and translator into English, Welsh and Italian. He has published a number of essays, articles and poems in English and Italian. Among his translations are La Ragazza Carla / A Girl Named Carla by Elio Pagliarani (Troubadour, 2006) and Bondo by Menna Elfyn (Ludo, 2021).

'a vital window into the soul of our neighbours in this post-Brexit Europe' - Poetry Wales; 'These are excursions I intend to keep making, poets whose work I hope to find more of and enjoy.' - Tears in the Fence; 'a welcome addition to the bookshelves' - World Literature Today