I was born in Palmanova, in the province of Udine on 10 April 1957. I lived for twenty years in Aquileia, then I moved to Auronzo di Cadore, where I currently live and work as a primary school teacher. The love for life, for the family (which also includes my four-legged friends) and my homeland, enhanced by the splendid and magical Lagoon of Grado, which generously frames it and acts as a mirror , constitute the humus, the primary source of inspiration for the drafting of my texts. Alessandra Gottard