Janna Brancolini is an American journalist based in Rome, Italy, covering business, politics, culture, tech and the environment. She writes about financial policy for Bloomberg and covered the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy for the Los Angeles Times. Her articles and essays have also appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Business Insider and more. Janna’s first narrative nonfiction book, "Breaking the Surface," blending science, art and history to tell the story of pioneering underwater archaeologist Honor Frost, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press.