Her Story

Claudia Monacelli's career has always been about what happens in the space between people. She spent decades in the interpreter's booth — voicing testimony in courtrooms, negotiations at the European Commission, statements for the U.S. Department of State — where she learned that meaning is fragile, and a single mistranslated word can alter the outcome of a case, a negotiation, a life. That understanding shaped her scholarship: six books, dozens of peer-reviewed essays, and years spent studying how language carries — and hides — power.

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After closing an academic chapter, Claudia turned to fiction, discovering that the tension she'd spent a career translating for others was exactly what she wanted to write about herself. Her novels return to rooms she knows intimately: the booth, the tribunal, the moment before a word is chosen. Alongside her fiction, she hosts the podcast Let's Talk Soul and works as a Feldenkrais Practitioner, Soul Therapist, and Psychic Medium — each one another way of asking the same question that has followed her since 1997, when her first work was published: what does it mean to be truly heard?