Anna Lombardo

Anna Lombardo is a Venice-based poet, translator and cultural activist. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin on the marginalization of female poetry. She directs the Palabra en el Mundo poetry festival in Venice, which she has led since 2009, and helped found the International Poet's Net POP. Her bilingual poetry collections include Even the Fish Are Drunk (2002) and Blackout, published by El Martillo Press of Los Angeles. She also co-edited the 2024 El Martillo anthology From Venice to Venice with Mark Lipman.