Poetessa e Scrittrice, nata a Udine nel 1950, si è diplomata al liceo artistico di Venezia e si è laureata in Belle Arti e Libere Arti all’Università di Prescott in Arizona.
Ha visitato comunità native intorno al mondo, soffermandosi in alcune di esse pure per lunghi periodi, in Marocco, Colombia, Messico, Giappone e nelle riserve indiane del Sudovest americano, dove è stata tradizionalmente adottata da una famiglia hopi.
Attualmente vive nel suo ranch nel Nuovo Messico dove alleva cavalli purosangue arabi e cani da slitta. Insegna arte e spettacolo in una locale scuola navajo.
Ha pubblicato numerosi libri con la Casa Editrice Montedit nel mese di maggio 2011 è uscito: Mater dolorosa – Diari di Madre Terra nel settembre 2011 Walks Far Woman Asdzání Hayói nel maggio 2012 Alla ricerca del proprio “cantastorie” – Ricollegarsi alla propria cultura e alla Terra

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Udine, Italy, in 1950, Francesca Premi graduated from the Art Lyceum in Venice and from Prescott College for the Liberal Arts and the Environment.
Among other studies, she attended Veterinary Medicine and the theater school “Nuova Scena” in Bologna. She has also studied aerobic, classical and modern dance at the University of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. Since 1969, she has been teaching the visual and the performing arts, first in Italy and then in the United States.
A primary activity in her life has always been horseback riding and equestrian sports. Upon her arrival in the United States in 1981, she crossed the Great Plains riding her Arabian mare, Arazonia, on a trek 2,800 miles long. The journey took three months.
She has visited native communities around the world, stopping for some time among the people and tribes in Colombia, Morocco, Mexico, Japan and the Indian reservations of the American Southwest. There, she was traditionally adopted by a Hopi family.
Currently, Francesca lives on her ranch in New Mexico, raising purebred Arabian horses and sled dogs. She teaches visual and performing arts in a local Navajo school.
As an artist and a writer, she has participated with her work in several Italian and international contests, winning some of them with sculptures and oil paintings, poetry and creative writings. In 2001, she was chosen along with other four poets as finalist in the literary contest “The Golden Colosseum” with her poetry-book In the Vortex of Life.
In 2002, she was a finalist at the international literary contest “Jacques Prevert” with her autobiography Walks Far Woman, published by Montedit Pub. Co. (Milano, Italy).
Other works of the writer, both published by Montedit in 2004, are the historic novel The Treasure of the Castle, and her “Indian reservation-diaries”, The Crystal Fortress. Francesca’s latest effort, published by Montedit in 2010, Mater Dolorosa – Diaries from Mother Earth is being translated into English, along with her Master’s Thesis Seeking the Inner Storyteller – Reconnecting to our Cultures and the Earth.