© Costanza Casati 2021
Costanza Casati was born in Texas and grew up in a village in Northern Italy, where she studied Ancient Greek, and Ancient Greek literature, under one of the country’s most rigorous academic programmes. She is a graduate of the prestigious Warwick Writing MA in the UK, and has worked as a screenwriter and journalist. Her debut novel, Clytemnestra, has sold into 18 territories worldwide, is a Times bestseller and a nominee for Best Fantasy in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Babylonia, set in the fierce world of the Assyrian Empire, is her second novel.