Julia Rizzi
Julia has been journaling since childhood and is a writer of morning pages, a gratitude diary, short stories, poems, simple recipes, features and creative non-fiction.
Language has always been her fascination, ever since the age of four when she leafed through an impenetrable collection of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Janusz Grabianski. Its colourful pictures lured her into written words as she nourished her hunger to read. Total immersion in the remaining three months of Scuola Elementare and Scuola Media, deepened her knowledge of spoken and written Italian. A joint-honours Modern Languages degree with Linguistics and Translation specialism in London extended her knowledge and appreciation of French and Italian and their classics, including La Peste, Au Nom du Fils, and Cristo si e’ Fermato a Eboli. She lived in Paris, attending the Sorbonne and worked as an English teacher in Arezzo, Italy.
With caring responsibilities, technical writing, software testing and teaching as a working backdrop to her ongoing interest in writing, currently Julia has three memoirs in progress, in different formats:
Birth to 11 – a chronological work
Her connection with Venice – themed
Thirtysomething years – poetry and narrative
A deepening interest in Autism; further work is in the pipeline and currently being researched.
Crossing borders and boundaries, cultural difference and similarity feed and inspire Julia’s writing. Her favourites: Little Big Man, the film, and Angela Carter’s Black Venus. She is also a lover of Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Jane Austen and Gerard Manley-Hopkins for their wonder in nature and the impact of human ‘progress’ on the landscape. Walks on clear, crisp days, dance, and travel are her path to inspiration, with an MA in Creative Writing still in her sights.
One of her favourite quotes, from Mary Oliver’s poem ‘Sometimes’:
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Published pieces:
All Aboard – feature on Canalability, Canal Boating Times
Endcote – Between the Lines, City-Lit’s centenary edition
1980-81 – University of Westminster 175th anniversary edition, Alumni Magazine
My Favourite Recipes – Take a Break magazine
Fusion – Caring Herts, anthology of carers’ writing, Carers in Hertfordshire
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/julia-rizzi-847197168/
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/59481929-julia
Language has always been her fascination, ever since the age of four when she leafed through an impenetrable collection of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Janusz Grabianski. Its colourful pictures lured her into written words as she nourished her hunger to read. Total immersion in the remaining three months of Scuola Elementare and Scuola Media, deepened her knowledge of spoken and written Italian. A joint-honours Modern Languages degree with Linguistics and Translation specialism in London extended her knowledge and appreciation of French and Italian and their classics, including La Peste, Au Nom du Fils, and Cristo si e’ Fermato a Eboli. She lived in Paris, attending the Sorbonne and worked as an English teacher in Arezzo, Italy.
With caring responsibilities, technical writing, software testing and teaching as a working backdrop to her ongoing interest in writing, currently Julia has three memoirs in progress, in different formats:
Birth to 11 – a chronological work
Her connection with Venice – themed
Thirtysomething years – poetry and narrative
A deepening interest in Autism; further work is in the pipeline and currently being researched.
Crossing borders and boundaries, cultural difference and similarity feed and inspire Julia’s writing. Her favourites: Little Big Man, the film, and Angela Carter’s Black Venus. She is also a lover of Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Jane Austen and Gerard Manley-Hopkins for their wonder in nature and the impact of human ‘progress’ on the landscape. Walks on clear, crisp days, dance, and travel are her path to inspiration, with an MA in Creative Writing still in her sights.
One of her favourite quotes, from Mary Oliver’s poem ‘Sometimes’:
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Published pieces:
All Aboard – feature on Canalability, Canal Boating Times
Endcote – Between the Lines, City-Lit’s centenary edition
1980-81 – University of Westminster 175th anniversary edition, Alumni Magazine
My Favourite Recipes – Take a Break magazine
Fusion – Caring Herts, anthology of carers’ writing, Carers in Hertfordshire
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/julia-rizzi-847197168/
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/59481929-julia