Career
Born in Offida, in the Marche region, she holds a degree in Foreign Languages with a dissertation on Contemporary American Literature, honed her writing skills as a translator and currently teaches English Language and Literature in the University of Milan, Milan. Her work as an essayist focuses on Italian science fiction criticism, and science fiction from women in particular. She contributed to various genre magazines, including Cosmo, Louisiana città e le stelle, Studi e ricerche sulla fantascienza and Ucronia.
Foreign Mondadori she did volume prefaces, articles, interviews, columns.
Starting in the mid-1980s she published novels and short-story collections. She also writes noir and kids literature.