Julia Buckley
Julia Buckley is a journalist based in Italy with nearly two decades of experience writing for UK, US and Italian publications. Trained in news and a former travel editor for UK national newspapers, she is now based in Italy, writing about the country and its culture for publications from CNN and National Geographic to TIME and the Times of London. Based between Venice and Sicily, with ancestral roots in Tuscany and Liguria, she has written guidebooks for Lonely Planet and DK Eyewitness, and translates for the likes of Assouline and Condé Nast. She studied Italian language and literature with Latin at the University of Oxford, specializing in female writers of the Renaissance and fascist-era cultural propaganda. In 2023 she was awarded a Italy’s prestigious Premio Ischia for travel journalism, and in 2024 her book on Milan’s iconic Pasticceria Marchesi was published by Assouline. She has worked as an ‘expert’ for National Geographic Expeditions in Italy and is the author of Heal Me, a travel-health memoir. She is currently working on a book about women of the Italian Renaissance.
