Roberta Oliva holds a degree in Modern Literature, with a thesis in Germanic Philology, a Master’s degree in Romance Languages and Literatures from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and a publishing certificate from the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has worked as a literary agent since 1988.
Since 1994, she has been a partner at the literary agency Natoli Stefan & Oliva S.a.S. She lives in Milan with her husband, a physician; they have a daughter, a veterinarian specializing in equine medicine.
She is passionate about the mountains, foreign languages, travel, and music, particularly classical music and jazz.