The tutors

Julian Evans’s latest book is Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War. He is also the author of Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis and Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific.

He has presented many radio and TV documentaries and written for English and French newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, Prospect, Times Literary Supplement and L’Atelier du Roman. He is a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow who, as well as university teaching, has been running the Write Italy courses for the last five years.

Miranda France is the prize-winning author of five books encompassing fiction and non-fiction, including her recent memoir The Writing School. She is a translator from Spanish and a consultant editor at the Times Literary Supplement. Her writing has been praised for its humour and powers of observation. An experienced teacher, Miranda is a tutor on Granta’s “Writing Memoir” course and the Goldsmiths Creative Writing MA.

Rachel Roddy needs little introduction. She lives in Rome and is the author of the award-winning Five Quarters, about the food of Rome; Two Kitchens, about her home in Testaccio and her partner Vincenzo’s home town of Gela in Sicily; and An A-Z of Pasta, based on the stories connected with the huge variety of pasta and shortlisted for the 2021 André Simon Book Award. Rachel’s bestselling books and column in the Guardian have won her a legion of fans, and she runs regular workshops about food, cookery and food stories in Rome and around Italy.