Giada Scodellaro was born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, New York. Giada’s writings have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New Yorker, BOMB, Harper’s, Granta, and The Chicago Review of Books, among other publications. Giada is a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, and is the inaugural Tables of Contents Regenerative Residency fellow. Giada’s debut collection, Some of Them Will Carry Me, was named one of the New Yorker’s best books of 2022. Winner of The Novel Prize, her debut novel, Ruins, Child, will be simultaneously published by New Directions (US), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), and Giramondo (AU) in early 2026.