Gianna was born along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. As a young girl, she spent her summers reading, often at the beach. The result was often a sharper mind, but a blistering skin. When she decided that Italy wasn't big enough, she moved to the United States and became a trauma surgeon. For the next thirty years  she faced the daily horrors of life in a Trauma Center. When she quit, she went back to her favorite activity as an adolescent, reading. So she decided to write as well.