Lee Foust is a fiction writer and performer from Oakland, CA who's lived in Italy since the mid-'90s. He teaches literature and creative writing at the Sant'Anna Institute in Sorrento and is the father of one. Lee is the author of 8 books: Poison and Antidote, nine tales of the San Francisco underground of the 1980s, Inbetween, a novel of love and anarchy, Here Lies..., a punk rock historical novel inspired by the life of Baroque architect Francesco Borromini, The Three Living Meet the Three Dead, an epic novel-in-frames in two volumes in which six tale-tellers tell a tale a night for a week, Fake Novel, a multi-voiced political satire about Donald Drumpf's human centipede administration, San Salvi, the interior monologue of a catatonic detainee in Florence's madhouse (in both English and Italian with illustrations by Tatiana Stadnichenko), Sojourner: Collected Poetry 1981-2023, and Two Wheels on Whitewashed Hallway Walls, an antifa giallo set in Florence, Italy.