Giulia Ottavia Frattini

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Giulia Ottavia Frattini (she/her) is a poet based in Berlin. She works in hybrid poetry and art practices and collaborates as a contributor for several art magazines. In 2023, she was a Poetry Foundation Forms & Features Visiting Teaching Artist. Frattini grew up in Italy and earned a BA in art communication and didactics at the Brera Academy in Milan. She pursued postgraduate curatorial training at the Zurich University of the Arts. Exophonic writing is fundamental to her work, and she also gravitates toward unfolding identity, language’s physicality, and lyricism's disruption.