Born in Rome in 1964, he is a teacher, cultural journalist and writer. Since 2000, he has been teaching creative writing at LUMSA University in Rome. Since 2018, he has been director of the “Pierluigi Cappello” School of Reading and Writing in Brescia. As a cultural journalist, he was for thirteen years the author and host of CultBook, RAI’s program dedicated to great literature, interviewing hundreds of international writers and literary critics. For several years he trained in teaching The Writers Studio method with Philip Schultz in New York, Rome and online.