Tess Amodeo-Vickery lives and writes in Rome, Italy, where she is the Global Fashion Director for Runway Passport (www.runwaypassport.com). Recently, Tess wrote and edited documentary shooting treatments for National Geographic Television and Discovery Channel US. She has written for The Guardian, Good Magazine and The Nashua Telegraph, among others, and was recently featured in Romeing Magazine and InRomeNow.com. Her undergraduate thesis, When In Rome, earned her University Honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where she completed her B.A. in Classical Civilization. Tess has studied ancient culture, architecture and art history in Rome extensively since being selected to attend the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome ("ICCS") in 2005, a program run by Duke University that facilitates on-site study of Classical, Renaissance and Baroque art.