Amneris Di Cesare

Amneris Di Cesare, an Italian born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, lives in Bologna. Married to a Calabrian doctor, full-time mother and wife, she collaborates as a freelance for women's magazines. She published the essay "Mother not mother: the challenge of being mothers in the world of Harry Potter" in a charity anthology entitled Potterology: ten tastings of the universe of J.K. Rowling (CameloZampa, 2011) which was followed by the ebook Mother not mother: the minor mothers in the Harry Potter Universe (Runa, 2015); she published her debut novel in 2012, Nient'altro che amare (Cento Autori), winner of the Literary Mondadit Award; in 2014 was published Straight to the Heart (Runa) and in 2015 Sirena on the horizon (Amarganta), winner of the Cercasi Jane Award in 2013 and Magic Roses of Fiuggi; she participated in the collective anthology of essays The Fantastic in children's literature with an essay, Cassandra Clare and the exhalogy of Shadowhunters (Runa, 2016). She collaborates, through interviews on the world of writing and reviews, with the blog Babette Brown reads for you (www.babettebrown.it) and Silently Aloud (http://silently-aloud.blogspot.de/). From the beginning of 2015 she is curator of the series for the Fantasy and Under15 genres and scout and foreign rights manager for the English and Portuguese texts for Amarganta. She started exploring the world of self-publishing through two romance novels: Duel and Mysterious is the heart. She has a blog, Scarabocchi (http://amnerisdicesare.wordpress.com) and an author page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AmnerisDiCesare2/).