Alessandra Anzani is the editorial director at Academic Studies Press, publisher of award-winning scholarly and trade titles in the humanities and social sciences. She manages the acquisitions and editorial teams, as well as the trade imprint Cherry Orchard Books, and serves on the editorial board of the London Ukrainian Review. She previously worked for Peter Lang as an acquisitions editor in the UK, US, and Latin American markets. She studied classics, literature, and philology at Università di Salerno, Italy and international relations at UCL, London. She lived in Italy, Germany, and the US before settling in Oxford, UK.