Lisa Riccardi graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and spent years moving between film and TV sets and the swimming pool, where she played water polo. A full-time screenwriter, since 2020 she has also been publishing children’s books, while keeping her afternoons free to fight pirates with her kids. She is currently writing her directorial debut and developing a medical TV series, for which she often asks advice from her twin sister Margherita.