Ilenia Pezzaniti (Lain) (b. 1990) is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist in Akron, Ohio. She is the coauthor of Margaret (2022), and currently teaches photography at The University of Akron. Pezzaniti has produced her own short films such as #iwokeuplikethis which premiered at the Nightlight in 2016, as well as award-winning work for the former Devil Strip magazine and with Pritt Entertainment Group. She received the Best in Show award two years consecutively in the Cleveland Print Room’s National Juried Exhibitions and was a Capturing Cleveland Fellow in 2020. Pezzaniti holds a BA in communication and photojournalism from Kent State University. She is a first generation Italian-American. Her work is influenced by her immigrant ancestry and existing in between two cultures.