Elena Traina is a tutor of creative writing for Scuola Holden and Fondazione Universitaria San Pellegrino in Italy, the Escuela de Escritores, Spain, Escrever Escrever in Portugal and Instituto Vera Cruz, Brazil. A PhD student at the Univeristy of Falmouth, UK, she is a multilingual author (Italian, English and Spanish) and a researcher in creative writing studies. As well as a board member for the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes (EACWP) and National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), she has a PGD in Teaching Creative Writing from Universidad de Alcalá and Escuela de Escritores, Spain.