Alessandra Gelmi

Alessandra Gelmi is an internationally published journalist. Her beat is cultural criticism. She has also interviewed dozens of celebrities from Stallone to Obama. Her interest in interviewing notable people was sparked when her father,a kidney surgeon, operated on Ferdinand Marcos. Alessandra asked to meet the former Philippine president "to pick his brain" and published the interview in The Dartmouth, the oldest college newspaper in america. Her latest book "Ring of Fire: Selected Poems 1972-2009) is availalbe now.