Margherita Bassi been processing the world around her through writing for as long as she can remember. As the daughter of an archeologist and an engineer, she uses her writing career to explain how stuff works and obsess over all things ancient and primordial.

Margherita received her bachelor’s degree in English Literature at Boston College and her master’s degree in journalism at L’École du Journalisme de Nice, in France. A journalism career became her way to feed a deep curiosity for a number of subjects: literature, ancient history, anthropology, mythology, archeology, paleontology, astronomy, evolutionary biology, geology. Her master’s thesis explored the concept of “home” to try and understand what to do when one feels at home in many different places.

When she’s not writing — or thinking about writing — she spends her time reading, traveling, horseback riding, and with loved ones.