I am the managing editor and a podcast host at Quillette and the UK editor at Queer Majority.

From May 2020–October 2023, I was also the editor-in-chief of the independent liberal publication, Areo Magazine, and the host of its podcast, Two for Tea.

I have a PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University and a background in academe and in professional freelance writing, copyediting and translation. I have written two books: Anxious Employment (Routledge 2005), a study of eighteenth-century periodical editors, and Our Tango World (Milonga Press, 2018), a philosophical and sociological study of the tango milieu. I am currently editing an anthology of writing in defence of free speech (Pitchstone, forthcoming 2025).

My political essays have also appeared The Times, The Indian Quarterly and The Washington Examiner, among other outlets. My personal essays are published weekly in my Substack newsletter, The Second Swim.

I’m based in Sydney, Australia. The best way to contact me is by email: iona.italia@gmail.com