Originally from Boston, Melanie moved to Rome in 2008 and graduated from AUR in 2013 with a BA in Communications with a double minor in English and Digital Film and Media.
Melanie wrote her first novel during her sophomore and junior year at AUR, and together with Professor Lisa Colletta edited the first draft as her senior thesis assignment.
After graduation, Melanie signed with her literary agent from California and wrote the first draft of her second novel.
Melanie continues to reside in Rome as she balances writing and working at FAO full time.
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Robben Island, situated 8km off the coast of Cape Town, or Mother City as it is affectionately known, is unmistakably etched into the horizon and ‘visible’ in more ways than one to the local, as well as visiting eye.
Fabrizia Lanza is the owner and director of the Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School located on her family’s 200-year-old agricultural estate in the heart of Sicily.
Are the Rebel Alliance headquarters onÌýYavin 4 similar to the Mayan pyramids? Should the crumbling film sets of Tataouine that still stand in the Tunisian desert be considered an archaeological monument?