“I've always loved telling and listening to stories. At some point, around the age of fourteen, I even started to really read them. I dove into books - novels, short story collections, whatever - and I haven't stopped since.
So, after a while, I thought I would like to live on stories, that is writing, of storytelling, even if I still didn't quite know what it meant. And I wasn't sure how to do it. When I was seventeen I did an internship in a publishing house called Pratiche and I found that I liked it. So I decided to enroll in Lettere Moderne and I fell in love with our language, with literature and hundreds of books began to accumulate, in an inexhaustible desire to find out what happened in the history of the Italian language and literature, and how poets did, writers, but also directors or screenwriters doing what they did.
As soon as I finished university, between one job and another, I went to Turin to attend the Holden School of Alessandro Baricco and associates, with whom I then collaborated for about ten years and where I started teaching writing courses in 2005. . Gee, I've been running courses for seventeen years now that I think about it.
In the meantime, I wrote short stories, a novel, some comics, plays, audio guides, short films and a lot of other things that I don't remember, and I founded with Corsi Corsari di Milano a place called Benbow - Writing and Narration, where they are taught to tell and write stories. So, in the end, I managed - at least for now - to do what I dreamed of: living on stories and storytelling, spending most of my time thinking about that. I don't know if it's good, but I like it ”.
