Cristina Oliva

Cristina Oliva is a writer and editor, and the president and managing director of Edizioni L’Albero. She holds a degree in psychology from the University of Michigan, where she interned at the Children’s Center for Working Families, developing a deep sensitivity for education in multicultural contexts. Since childhood she has cultivated a love for stories and illustrated books, inventing plots based on images. With Pumpkin Heart she explores the fear of loving and opening one’s heart through a poetic and symbolic fairy tale, published in bilingual editions for an international audience. She lives in Italy.