Stephen Twilley is the senior managing editor of Public Books, where he has also served as a section editor for literature in translation. His own translations from the Italian include Francesco Pacifico’s The Story of My Purity (2013), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Professor and the Siren (2014), and Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris (2020). He lives in Chicago.