Chiara Barzini is an Italian author and screenwriter. Her work has appeared in Bomb, Noon, Harper’s, Vogue, T Magazine, Vice, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Interview Magazine, and others. She is the author of the story collection Sister Stop Breathing (Calamari Press, 2012) and the novel Things That Happened Before The Earthquake (Doubleday, 2017), currently in development as a film. She lives in Rome.