She graduates in Scenography in 2004, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan with a dissertation on photographer Jeff Wall. In the same year she gets a grant to attend courses at the Italian Institute

Rebecca Solnit is one of the most capaciously curious and insightful living writers, having explored subjects across a tremendous variety of fields.  What is perhaps most refreshing about her approach to her material is precisely the fearlessness with which she circumvents traditional methods