In 2003, she won the Eks & Tra prize for migrant writers with her story "Salsicce", and published her debut novel, La nomade che amava Alfred Hitchcock.

Scego collaborates with newspapers such as La Repubblica and Il manifesto and contributes to the magazine Nigrizia[4] with an opinion column, titled "The colors of Eve".

In 2011, she won the Premio Mondello with her book La mia casa è dove sono, which was published the previous year by Rizzoli.

Scego's genius is to scale from the international to the intimate, from memory and materiality to music, mothers, and menstruation, the 'rhythm that transports me into a cosmic chaos that appears to be my own.

'"[6] Seago's 2020 novel, La linea del colore, combines the characters of Edmonia Lewis and Sarah Parker Remond and is dedicated to Rome and to these two African-American women who lived in the city during the 19th century.