Sunshine
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | Hackney Wick, London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Sunshine Faggio is an Italian poet and translator. She has a BA Degree and a MA in Translation Studies. She has two collections of poems published in Italy(2009 and 2012). In the last years, she has started to combine poetry with performance art. The most outstanding result of this artistic research was the body performance Humans, showed at the Hackney Wicked Art Festival 2011 and at the Yard Theatre in October 2011 (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xllanv_humans_creation). Some of her English poems have been published on the American liteary e-zine The Scramblers. Sunshine took part to various Italian literary prizes, winning several awards among which the publication of her third collection of poems, due in early 2013. She writes a blog www.chicasinwonderland.blogspot.com and lives in London, where she works part-time in the field of education, dedicating the rest of her time to the activity of writing, melting it with painting and performance art, and literary translation. In the English capital she organizes bi-monthly poetry readings to which took part many of the habitués of London spoken word circuit. |