Graduated with Prof. Alberto Quadrio Curzio in Milan in political science with an international focus, she immediately worked in the field of communication and, wanting to follow her two true passions, travel and writing, decided to become a journalist. Working his way up through the ranks. Since 1989 she has been writing for major national periodicals and since graduation for the next 18 years she attended master's degrees and workshops in applied communication psychology. Winning a scholarship for a radio operator, she follows a five-year European pilot project of network radio; she works for Radio Popolare Bologna and Radio RAI2 producing popular mini-transmissions on gender equality.

After a long sabbatical and professional trip between 2000 and 2001 solo in southern Africa, she combined her work with the necessary technological upgrades (continuous training on programs, apps, etc.) and professional knowledge with a constant commitment as a volunteer teaching “practical” Italian to migrants and migrant women guests in foster homes. Sort of squaring the circle between her passion for travel and social and cultural reporting, which she has always written about with features for national weekly and monthly magazines.

Formerly the chief editor of Vanity Fair in 2003, for which she worked for a number of years, she also set her sights on phenomena related to food culture, later publishing short stories in France and bringing to print in Italy, in 2011, the successful volume of short stories Spiriti Bollenti. Earthly Portraits of 21 Star Chefs, (Guido Tommasi editore) a finalist for the 2012 Bancarella Cucina Prize. With the same publisher, in 2020, he brought out Suite per un Castagno, runner-up at the 2020 Bancarella Cucina Prize. In between, other publications on different topics (see the book section of his website).

She also writes for the web and supports social enterprises in startups: since 2014 she has participated in the project of the social promotion association Smallfamilies® taking care of the Portal of Variable Geometry Families as editorial content manager and creator and editor, together with Laura Lombardi, of the editorial series smALLbooks (Cinquesensi Editore), the first in Italy to deal exclusively with testimonies on the family in transformation.

From 2014 to 2022 she collaborated with DlaRepubblica, on topics of her vocation particularly social and food culture.

Following her (auto)biographical writing experience with fashion designer Mila Schon, for whom in 2006 she gave to the prints Nei miei panni, she began to offer to the market a commissioned writing service of (auto)biographies of people, places, companies, institutions, associations starting from an axiom: telling one's story is a tool to defend personal memory and to leave to others the testimony of one's story. Writing in the first person also provides well-being, soothes wounds of the body and soul. Not everyone and everyone, however, is able to overcome the wall of the “blank page” to narrate one's self or bear witness to the story of an activity, an invention, a company, an association, a party, and even an idea or a food.

The writer offers herself as a “translator”: the mission is to tell life stories authentically, capturing the unique essence of each subject. And since each existence is placed in a context, the (auto)biographical portrait also becomes a testimony and, therefore, a tool for knowledge and understanding of an era. An element that increases the very value of the story. History is always the result of each person's stories. One example among those made is Step by Step (also translated for the U.S. market): how a factory worker and a clerk became successful entrepreneurs through a passion and changed the RV industry in Europe and North America.

One of his mottos is a phrase that is not known to whom to attribute it-but does it matter? - and it goes like this, “Every person you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind, always.”

Ph. Matilda Michelini