Juliano Zaffino is a writer, researcher and editor based near London. He founded YourShelf, a bespoke book-subscription service, in 2016. Over time, YourShelf expanded to encompass the YourShelf Podcast, where he interviewed a variety of writers from Lauren Groff to Doireann Ní Ghríofa, as well as the YourShelf Press, which published the author’s own poetry collection All Those Bodies And They’re Moving (2020), and Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s SELF ESTEEM (2021). The author also introduced Florence Welch to the Strasbourg dancing plague of 1616 through his poem ‘Strasbourg’, which inspired her 2022 album Dance Fever. Zaffino holds a PhD on ‘Cutting Shakespeare’, from the Shakespeare Institute and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Steps is his first novel.