Federica Pantana is a lawyer by day and poet by night. Her poet pseudonym "Francine" was given to her by a resident of the Chelsea Hotel, which she visited the same day she returned to New York City (and never left). Proudly Italian by birth and self-made New Yorker, she draws poetic inspiration from her muses: from cities to friends, to lovers. She is a regular performer in the Downtown NYC poetry scene. "Chinatown Boheme" is her first upcoming collection of selected poems.