Iaia Chiesa

Iaia Chiesa, a poet and an artist, was born in Italy in 1953, where she studied art and art history. ‎She moved to London, England, in 1981, to study English and English literature. She met Paola ‎there and they lived together for thirty-five years, as wife and wife when it became legally ‎possible, until Paola's death in 2019. ‎

Iaia's interest in literature started when exploring her father's and godmother's extensive ‎libraries, and her love of poetry goes back to her teenage years, when she discovered Jacques ‎Prévert, Pablo Neruda, Evgeni Evtushenko, Kurt Tucholsky, Cesare Pavese, Dylan Thomas and ‎many others, mainly European and Russian poets and authors. She lives in London.‎