Federica Leva

Internist, psychotherapist and writer, the author has been writing since she was a girl and has participated in numerous literary awards for fantasy and mainstream, with about thirty awards achieved and a dozen first places. Sometimes she has been called back as honorary member or foreperson of the panel - Piero Chiara, Artenuova, the Olandese Volante. She prefers the literary genres of fantasy, mainstream, historical and humor. At the end of 2002 she published her musical novel, Radici di sabbia - Andante, Allegretto, Largo, Animato con fuoco, into the book series I Racconti della Musica, in which the music critics Rattalino, Nava and Zignani already appear. The novel won five literary awards, both national and European. A new edition is due in 2015, in a wider and more in-depth way than the original. In 2006, she published the musical novel Cantico sull’Oceano, published by Ennepilibri from Imperia, and got published again in 2013 by Sesat Ed. from Bologna. The novel won three literary awards. In 2014 she published the fantasy novel Echi dalla Terre Sommerse, Sereture Ed., which is the first volume in the series La Saga del Rinnegato. Her works: several short stories, speeches, reviews, and literary and news articles, have been published on fanzines, regional bi-weekly publications, literary magazines, literary collections and web portals. During 2012 she published the short story Sacrilege in the anthology The Gage Project, published by Inkbeans, Los Angeles. In 2015, the publishing house GDS published her mythological short story E i Dioscuri accarezzarono la Terra in the collection I Figli di Zeus, developed by Anna Grieco and Irene Grazzini. A short story falling in the humor category is scheduled with another publishing house. She has a personal blog www.federicaleva.it, a photography blog, and a psych consult blog www.chiediallopsicologo.it. Her great passions are reading, writing, fantasy, music, and