Born in Germany, Gabriella Mautner, who is fluent in five languages, studied in many European countries. She now resides in the United States. After publishing two additional works, Out of a Season and The Good Place, she recently completed a new novel, Addio Positano.
She is a professor of writing at the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco. In 2008 she received a Milley Award in the Literary Arts. Please visit her at her website www.gabriellamautner.com.