Jo-Ann Titmarsh is a freelance travel writer who specialises in Venice and other Italian destinations. Having lived in Venice for half her life, she can tell you anything and everything you need to know about the city. Whether you’re after a new vegan restaurant or a traditional haunt of fish merchants, a chic new cocktail bar or a contemporary art show, she will do her best to find what you are looking for. She is the Lonely Planet Local for Venice.
As well as travel writing, she translates from Italian to English, focusing primarily on art and architecture, and is a film critic, covering both the Venice and Cannes film festivals. In 2008 she published her book Venice Walks, a guide containing secret itineraries around the city.