Marco Peano was born in Turin in 1979. He works as an Italian fiction editor for Einaudi. He writes for “Tuttolibri - La Stampa”. He has edited books including Paura, the autobiography of Dario Argento (Einaudi, 2014) the letters of H.P. Lovecraft (published with the title L’età adulta è l’inferno by L’orma Editore, 2018), and, also by H.P. Lovecraft, I taccuini di Randolph Carter (Einaudi, 2021). His debut novel, L’invenzione della madre (minimum fax, 2015), won the Premio Volponi Opera Prima and the Premio Libro dell’Anno, hosted by the radio program Fahrenheit on Radio 2. It was also published in France. His latest novel is Morsi (Bompiani, 2022).