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Valentina Pellizzoni was born in Cantù and holds a degree in Film History from the University of Bologna, along with a Master’s in Film and Television Production. After working as an assistant director on a soap opera, she realized that if she had to choose a kind of fiction, she much preferred the kind found in books. For years, she has managed a bookstore and has been organizing and teaching training courses on children's literature. She nurtures a passion for writing and contributes articles on literature and books to specialized blogs.

Valentino Ronchi (Milan, 1976) has published the poetry books L’epoca d’oro del cineromanzo (nottetempo, 2016), Primo e parziale resoconto di una storia d’amore (nottetempo, 2017), Buongiorno ragazzi (Fazi, 2019), Ma tu l’hai letto “Il giovane Holden”? (Graphe.it, 2024) and the novels Riviera (Fazi, 2021) and Quasi niente (fve, 2024).

Barbara Bernardini was born and has always lived in the province of Latina. She graduated in Sociology and is now studying Environmental Humanities. She has been working in publishing, cultural planning and writing for about twenty years. She writes a fortnightly newsletter, Braccia Rubate, about ecology, agriculture and books. Her first book is Dall’orto al mondo. Piccolo manuale di resistenza ecologica (Nottetempo, 2023).

Katsumi Komagata was born in 1953 in Shizuoka (Japan) and studied Graphic Design at Nippon Design Centre. After collaborating with design studios, television and communication agencies in the United States, first in Los Angeles and then in New York, he returned to Tokyo, where he founded his graphic design studio, One Stroke, in 1986. In 1990, after the birth of his daughter Ai, Katsumi Komagata created the Little Eyes series, one of his most famous and innovative works, consisting of wordless books to encourage parent-child interaction.

Born in Terni in 1984, Giulia Ceccarani graduated in Industrial Design at the Istituto Statale d’Arte and later in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
After taking courses at Ars in Fabula in Macerata with Simone Rea and Anna Forlari, she began illustrating and writing books for children. She holds workshops for children and adults and participates in Contemporary Art exhibitions.
Ranging from graphics to illustration, from murals to mixed media works, she always reasearches a personal and unique style made up of multiple forms.

Francesco Spampinato is a full professor of Contemporary Art History at the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna. He conducts research in the fields of contemporary artistic practices and visual studies, with a focus on the relationship between contemporary art, media and technology, and on collective dynamics, electronic culture and the capacity of art to produce agency in urgent matters such as environmental issues.

Born in Paris in 1959, Paul Cox is a self-taught artist and graphic. In parallel to painting, he has produced children's books, posters, sets, installations, games, logos and much more. He is passionate about printing techniques, in particular lithography and silkscreen printing. In 1999, he won a prize at the Bologna Children's Book Fair for his book History of Art.

Ilaria Tagliaferri lives near Florence. She has worked for more than twenty years in the Campi Bisenzio Library and is the director of the magazine LiBeR. Since she was little, she always loved reading. She has three cats, one of which is very old, and a lot of picture books. She also likes singing, and whenever she can, she does it.

Mario Onnis nasce in Sardegna dove frequenta il Liceo Scientifico e si laurea in Lingue. Dopo aver seguito dei corsi con Francesca Ghermandi, Carll Cneut, Roberto Innocenti e Pia Valentinis si diploma al Master Ars in Fabula. Ha pubblicato in Italia e all'estero e collabora dal 2015 con la scuola di illustrazione Ars in Fabula di Macerata.