Michelle Lovric is the author of five novels - Carnevale, The Floating Book (winner of a London Arts Award and chosen as a W H Smith Read of the Week) and The Remedy (longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction) - as well as four children's novels, The Undrowned Child and The Mourning Emporium. She combines her fiction work with editing, designing and producing literary anthologies including her own translations of Latin and Italian poetry. Her book Love Letters was a New York Times bestseller. Lovric divides her time between London and Venice, and holds workshops in both places with published writers of poetry and prose, fiction and memoir.

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