She has published her poetry and poetry translations in The City Lights Review, The Blue Unicorn, The San Marcos Review, Gradiva, The Midwest Quarterly, Women's Voices, Voices in Italian Americana, The Rocky Mountain Review, Kovoné, Women's Voices, Italian Americana, The Paterson Literary Review and in many other publications.

She is the sole editor and co-translator with Mary Prentice Lillie, of two books of verse translations of Italian Renaissance women poets, Gaspara Stampa: Selected Poems (New York: Italica Press, 1994) and Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance: Courtly Ladies and Courtesans (New York: Italica Press, 1997). Gaspara Stampa was included in Granger's Index of Poetry, and Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance was favorably reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement and is being used as text book at the university level.

A poet as well as a translator, Stortoni is deeply interested in modern poetry. She has translated Sentry Towers, the most recent poetry book by Maria Luisa Spaziani (twice Italy's candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature), which appeared in July 1996 in dual language edition with Hesperia Press. She has translated and published Giuseppe Conte's The Ocean and the Boy, with an introduction by Italo Calvino, also in dual language edition (Berkeley, CA: Hesperia Press, 1997).

She has completed The Moon and the Island, her first volume of personal poetry, with a preface by Diane di Prima, forthcoming in dual edition. She has also translated into Italian and published in Italy poetry by modern American poets, such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Wieners and Diane di Prima.

She makes her home in Berkeley, CA, and in Milan, Italy.