Linguist Nicoletta LaMarca Sacco, born in Englewood, NJ, is bilingual in Italian/English. She graduated from Princeton University in 1990, and from the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Rutgers University in 1998. She taught ESL for 27 ½ years and is now writing poetry and prose. She will begin a PhD in Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton this fall term.