Alessandra Libutti was a finalist for the Italo Calvino Prize in 2002 with the novel *Thomas Jay* (Fazi Editore, 2012). She contributes to the newspapers *La Ragione*, *Il Foglio*, and *CityNews*. She is a co-founder of the blog *InOltre*. *La memoria del giglio* (Rizzoli, 2025) is her second novel.