Fiore Manni studied fashion design and presented a popular children’s TV show for several years. She is now a full-time author and content creator, sharing her love of books on Instagram. Her recent publications include The Fox King Trilogy (Rizzoli, 2023–24; over 10,000 copies sold), winner of the Lucca Comics & Games 2024 Community Award for Fantasy Book of the Year; Like Cicadas (Rizzoli, 2021; translation rights sold in French, audio and e-book rights sold in English, Polish, and Spanish); and Love, Sex and Other Such Things (Rizzoli, 2022), co-written with Elena Peduzzi. She is also the co-author, with her partner Michele Monteleone, of the graphic novel Mask’d (Star Comics, 2022). Her debut novel won the Premio Asti d’Appello Junior and was a finalist for the Castello di Sanguinetto Prize, Italy’s oldest award for children’s fiction.





