Luigi Augusto Fontanella (born 1943 Salerno, Italy) is an Italian poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.

[3] He is the Founder and President of IPA (Italian Poetry in America), as well as the Senior Editor, for the publishing house Olschki, of Gradiva: An International Journal of Poetry, and Chief Editor of the publishing house of Gradiva Publications,[4] which has recently received the National Prize for the Translation from the Ministry of Culture and the Catullo Prize.

In 2014 he was awarded the Premio Nazionale Frascati Poesia alla Carriera for the poetry collection Disunita ombra (Archinto, RCS, 2013).

Complete bibliography for poetry in La Poesia di Luigi Fontanella, edited by B. Vincenzi, Cosenza: Macabor, 2018, ISBN 978-88-85582-17-0.

Contributions by S. Aglieco, S. Aman, A. Carrera, S. D'Amaro, M. De Angelis, C. Di Lieto, G. Ferroni, F. Filia, B. Garavelli, E. Grasso, F. La Porta, C. Mauro, I. Mugnaini, A. Paganardi, G. Pontiggia, E. Rega, R. Urraro, S. Violante.