Cheryl A. Ossola is a second-generation Italian American and a descendant of the stonecutters who shaped Barre, Vermont's, granite industry. Her fiction and poetry explore Italian heritage, art, labor history, and the immigrant experience. She is the author of the novel The Wild Impossibility (2019), and her work has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Writer's Digest, Switchback, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, and Eastern Iowa Review: Best Prose Poetry 2025. A former editor and freelance writer with an MFA from the University of San Francisco, she writes Italicus: a writer's life in Italy from a hilltop town in Umbria.