Paola Caronni has been living in Asia since 1995. She is a freelance translator, interpreter and tutor of Italian language and holds an MA in English Language and Literature from the University in Milan, Italy. She loves writing poems and fiction and one of her poems is included in the poetry collection Desde Hong Kong: Poets in Conversation with Octavio Paz. Since 2014, she has been a regular contributor to the cultural platform Beyond Thirty-nine, where she publishes blog-posts and coordinates cultural projects. Caronni is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Hong Kong. [Distance]