Francesco Verso was born in Bologna in 1973. His first novel, Human Antidotes, was finalist at Urania-Mondadori Award. In 2009 he won the Urania-Mondadori Award with e-Doll. In 2013 he won the Odyssey Award by Delos Books with Livido (also 2014 Cassiopea and Italy Award for best SF novel). He wrote short stories such as Flush, 90 Cents, Two Worlds and Fernando Morales, This is Your Death!. He's finished his fourth book called "Bloodbusters" and a fifth one "The Walkers - Part 1 - The Pulldogs".After being co-editor of series "Avatar" by Kipple Officina Libraria, in 2014 he started the Future Fiction project, dealing with multimedia projects ranging from digital books, to performative arts and audio/video installations.His stories have been represented on stage in the SF show The Milky Way and sold abroad on International Speculative Fiction #5 and The Chicago Quarterly Review #20. Livid published in Australia by Xoum Publishing in 2014. He lives in Rome with his wife and daughter.