About Me — Giulia Montanari

I make people die by writing their names on a book. No, really, that’s my job.

I do like dramatic poses, don’t I?

Now, let me preface this by saying that I never physically killed anyone — which, I know, is not a suspicious thing to say at all.
I also do not own a demonic notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in its pages — which is exactly what somebody owning a demonic notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in its pages would say, now that I think of it.

But I digress, as I always do.

What I mean is that I register people’s deaths. And births. And also marriages, divorces, citizenships and also a lot of other stuff I won't bore you with. People are not legally dead (or alive, or married, or adopted) until I write it down, and I guess that’s a kinda cool job to have.

Except it’s not. It’s a fabulously boring job, and that’s one of the reasons why I tell myself stories all the time. I’ve always done that, and I guess I will do it until the day I die.

Sometimes it’s light-hearted stories, sometimes it’s dark stories, sometimes it’s weird-ass stories that come out of nowhere. A lot of the times it’s stories from the past.

I’m lowkey obsessed with the past: I like old clothes, old jewelry, old stuff. I wander…