Francesco Verso

After earning a degree in Environmental economics from Roma Tre University in 2001, Verso started working for IBM in the personal computer division.

[citation needed] He started writing in 1996, first poems and then the novel Antidoti umani, which was nominated for a 2004 Urania Award.

[9] In 2015 he won his second Urania Award with his novel Bloodbusters[10] (equally placed with Sandro Battisti for the novel L'impero restaurato).

In 2018 he won an Italia Award as best editor for the series of book published on Future Fiction.

[11] In 2019 he received at the Refesticon Convention in Montenegro the Golden Dragon Award (Zlatni Zmaj) for achievements in the development of Science Fiction Literature.