Chiara Valerio was born in Scauri in 1978 and lives in Rome. She has published essays, novels, and short stories, including La gioia piccola d’esser quasi salvi (2009), Spiaggia libera tutti (2010), Il cuore non si vede (2019), La matematica è politica (2020), Nessuna scuola mi consola (2021), Così per sempre (2022), and La tecnologia è religione (2023).

Her book The Little I knew (2024), published by Sellerio, was a finalist for the Strega Prize and is currently being translated into several languages.