Juliano Zaffino Author

Juliano Zaffino obtained a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford in 2016, a Masters in

Shakespeare Studies from the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham) in 2017, and is currently undertaking a

PhD on ‘Cutting Shakespeare’ with the Shakespeare Institute and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Zaffino founded YourShelf, first as a bespoke book-subscription service, in 2016. Over time, YourShelf

expanded to encompass the YourShelf Press, which published the author’s own poetry collection and Rebecca Lucy

Taylor’s SELF ESTEEM (2021), and the YourShelf Podcast, where he interviewed a variety of writers from Lauren Groff

to Doireann Ní Ghríofa. The author also introduced Florence Welch to the Strasbourg dancing plague of 1616, which

inspired her 2022 album Dance Fever.