Born and raised somewhere in northern Italy, Greta Colombani is currently a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, where she is researching representations of communication with the Other World in Romantic poetry. She is the author of the scholarly monograph "A Gordian Shape of Dazzling Hue: Serpent Symbolism in Keats’s Poetry". She loves weird creatures, when the days get darker, and being emotionally devastated by fictional characters.