Rosina Lippi

Rosina Lippi-Green (née Rosina Lippi; born January 14, 1956) is an American writer. She writes under the names Rosina Lippi-Green (linguistics), Rosina Lippi (literary and contemporary fiction), and Sara Donati (historical fiction).

Biography Lippi-Green was born Rosina Lippi on January 14, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Her father was an Italian emigrant, and she has ancestry of different European countries.

At seventeen she went to Austria on an American Field Service scholarship. Upon graduating from high school, she went to teacher's college in Vorarlberg, Austria. She attended the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned a PhD in linguistics from Princeton University in 1987, with a dissertation entitled, "Variation leading to change in rural Alemannic: the dialect of Grossdorf in Vorarlberg, Austria", and taught linguistics for twelve years, notably at the University of Michigan. Her best known linguistic work is English with an Accent (Lippi-Green 1997, 2011), which is now in its second edition.

In her spare time, she is a fiber artist whose work has been published in Quilting Arts magazine. An interview with Linda Richards for January Magazine was published in March 2000. In 2013 she took an interest in polymer clay arts and began making jewelry.