Francesca Pierini is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Italian at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University (2011-2015), she was an International Scholar at KU Leuven in the academic year 2015-16. So far, Francesca has published four other short pieces of creative nonfiction: “Onions, Sulphites, and Panic Attacks,” (Spadina Literary Review, October 2016) “Red Bialetti” (ViceVersa Online, February 2017), “London Galleries” (Spadina Literary Reviews, April 2017), and “Taipei” (the Raven’s Perch, June 2017).