Maddalena Vaglio Tanet was born in Italy in 1985. She is a Ph.D. student in Italian and Comparative Literature. She graduated cum laude in Lettere Moderne at the University of Pisa in 2009, with a dissertation on the Italian poet Valerio Magrelli, and received her Diploma di Licenza from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 2011. Before being admitted to Columbia University, she briefly worked for the publishing house Nottetempo (Rome). Her interests include Italian, French and English literature of the 19th and 20th century, contemporary poetry, theory and practice of translation and creative writing; in particular, she plans to focus on the trilingual poetic work of Amelia Rosselli.