Tiziana is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and classics professor at Montclair State University. She has published three novels in Italian, Il lungo ritorno (2001), Due cose amare e una dolce (2007), Come della rosa (2017), a book of poetry — Dai morti (1992), and several short stories in literary anthologies both in Italy and the US. She has recently completed her first novel in the English language. 
Tiziana is married, has two daughters, two granddaughters and splits her time between Italy in Brooklyn, New York. She is a native of Sala Consilina, one of the fifteen small towns that make up the Vallo di Diano, in the southern Italian province of Salerno. Tiziana has lived in New York since 1984.