Anna Citrino grew up in San Diego County and taught abroad in international schools in Turkey, Kuwait, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, India and the United Kingdom. A graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont, Anna’s work has appeared in Canary, Juniper, Main Street Rag, the Paterson Literary Review, and Shanti Arts, among numerous other publications. She is the author of two chapbooks, Saudade, and To Find a River, and two books, A Space Between, and Buoyant. Her book Stories We Didn’t Tell is forthcoming this fall. A scuba diver, bicyclist and avid walker, Anna lives in Sonoma County where she’s learning to draw and is working with her husband Michael to make their backyard garden a wonderland of beauty and food to share with others. Read more of her writing at annacitrino.com.

Stefano Santo Sabato is an entrepreneur and AI researcher based in San Francisco. After years immersed in technology, he felt the need to create space for something more tangible, poetic, and human. This led to the founding of Ki Stories, an independent publishing house born in Lecce, Southern Italy.

"Liberto" is the first book published—a delicate and visionary work created with two dear friends, one a writer and the other an illustrator. A project that blends code and poetry, algorithms and dreams.

Gail Reitano grew up in the southern New Jersey Pine Barrens. After graduating from Rutgers University, Gail lived in New York and London before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Her fiction, memoir and personal essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Catamaran Literary Reader, LitHub, Ovunque Siamo, and the recent anthology, “And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere: Women’s Voices of the Italian Diaspora in North America,” Radici Edizioni (2024), in English and Italian. A first novel, Italian Love Cake, Bordighera Press (2021) won an Independent Press award; also available in French under the title Liberata.