Ellyn Toscano

Ellyn Toscano is an arts administrator, curator and author who serves as executive director of the Hawthornden Foundation, an American organisation supporting contemporary writers and the literary arts, particularly through international residency programs in Scotland, Italy, and Brooklyn. She co-edited the two-volume series Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History.

Toscano holds an LLM degree in International Law from New York University School of Law.

She worked for 18 years for New York University, including as Executive Director of NYU Florence, Her initiatives there included founding a summer festival in the Villa's gardens and a year-long series of conferences, talks and exhibitions.