Bruno Galluccio was born in Naples, where nowadays still stays. Graduated in Physics, he has worked on spacial satellite systems for the European Space Agency. He published his first poetry book, Verticali with Einaudi in 2009; in 2015, for the same publisher, La misura dello zero. He has had a collaboration with Antonio Raia, jazz music player, in music-poetry interaction performances. He has been director of the series about foreign poetry for the publisher Heimat. With the artist Lino Fiorito he has created the art volume Carte d’Imbarco, including drawings and poetry inspired by them. In August 2022, he published for Einaudi the poetry volume Camera sul vuoto.

Gianni Darconza is a writer, poet, translator, and professor of Spanish Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Urbino. He has published several poetry collections, including Oltre la lastra di vetro (2006), Antipartículas – Antiparticelle (2019), and Fuoco nascosto (2024), as well as the novel Alla ricerca di Nessuno (2007) and the children's story Il ladro di parole (2013). He has curated and translated anthologies and works by Spanish and Latin American poets, including V. Huidobro and A. Machado, and has translated Italian poets into Spanish. His essays include Lo specchio, il labirinto e la farfalla (2018) and Calvino e la limpidezza della complessità (2023). He has participated in international festivals in Mexico, Colombia, Spain, and Romania and has received prestigious translation awards, including the Premio Elio Pagliarini (2018) and the Premio Europa in Versi (2020). Since 2020, he has collaborated with the digital magazine Vuela palabra to promote Spanish and Latin American poetry.

Isabella Leardini, poet, is professor of Creative Writing at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. She has published several poetry collections, such as La coinquilina scalza (La Vita Felice, 2004), Una stagione d’aria (Donzelli, 2017) and the essay Domare il drago (Mondadori, 2018). She has been editor of the anthology Costellazione parallela. Poesie italiane del Novecento (Vallecchi, 2023). She is director of the Contemporary Poetry Center of the University of Bologna and editor of the poetry series for Vallecchi, in Florence.

Andrea Tavernati Born in Pavia in 1960 and graduated in Medieval and Humanistic Philology, for over thirty years in corporate communication as a copywriter and strategic planner. DIfferent poetry collections have been published poetry, including L’Intima Essenza (2013), Tamburi (2015), and Haiku delle cinque stagioni (2024), as well as the short story collection E niente indietro (2015) and the novel O per Sole o per Ombra (2021).
From 2013 to 2023 vice president of La Casa della Poesia di Como, contributing to the Europa in versi Festival and serving as a jury member for its international award. His works have received national literary prizes and have been translated into several languages. Further, he has taken part in international poetry festivals such as Parole spalancate (2021) and the Pen Club Festival in Bratislava (2019).

Pietro Berra, Pietro Berra, born in 1975 in the city of Como (Italy), is a journalist, he’s head of the cultural pages and supplement at the daily newspaper “La Provincia”. He has published 30 volumes of poetry, narrative and nonfiction, with particular attention to contemporary history, popular writing and an innovative approach to cultural tourism. He presides over Sentiero dei Sogni association (www.sentierodeisogni.it), organizes literary and film festivals, and supervises the project "Creative walks”, founded on the combination of poetry, art and walking.

Stefano Donno

Stefano Donno (1975) studied Philosophy at the University of Lecce, graduating in 2005. He received an honorary degree in Legal Sciences from the University of Moscow in 2013. He has published numerous books, including Sturm e Pulp (1998), L'Altro Novecento (2004), Nerocavo (2014), and Post Human H (2025). He has collaborated with criminologist Antonio Russo in raising awareness against stalking. He is editor of I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni and vice-president of La Casa della Poesia di Como. He has received several awards, including the Premio alla Carriera Europa In Versi (2021) and the Suwon International Poetry Award (2023). His poems have been translated into Romanian, Hungarian, Korean, and soon into Japanese.
In the art field, he has exhibited his works in various events and collectives, including the 13th Giornata del Contemporaneo (2017), and participated in the 38th AD-ART online contemporary art competition. He is included in the national contemporary art catalog L'Elite 2018 and exhibited at the Casa delle Arti in Milan. In 2024, he participated in the contemporary art exhibition for the tenth anniversary of the Utsanga.it magazine.

Hussein Habasch is a poet from Afrin, in Kurdistan. He currently lives in Bonn, Germany. He has published around ten poetry books translated into various languages and is featured in numerous international poetry anthologies. Invited to prestigious literary festivals in various countries around the world, he has received awards and honors both for his work as a poet and for promoting Kurdish culture. Among these, he was awarded the Hamid Bedirkhan Award, dedicated to the great Kurdish poet and conferred by the General Union of Kurdish Writers and Journalists; the Bosnian Stećak International Poetry Award, granted by the Union of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the Kathak International Literary Award from Bangladesh, presented during the World Thinkers and Writers for Peace Forum in Kolkata, India.

Lily Michaelides lives and works in Nicosia, Cyprus. Poet, writer and event organiser. She has published six collections of poetry: The Alchemy of Time (2001) ,  Shapes and Roads Relief…in (2003) , Remembrance of a Dawn (2004 - bilingual edition) , Innuendos (2007), Arena (2014), bilingual collection, short listed for the poetry state award, Entrapped Silk (2021). And in prose: The city needs no recommendations (2011), Drops from the Maasai Land (2017, 2019), Him, men’s stories (2019) a bilingual narrative collection, short listed for the State narrative award, Self-Portrait (2024) narrative, bilingual. Her poems have been published in newspapers and literary magazines in Cyprus and abroad and have been translated into many languages. In June 2013 she joined the Board of Directors of the Cyprus PEN Centre, responsible for Public and International Relations, until 2019.  Since 2006 she is a co-founder and a director of Ideogramma, organisers of literature festivals and poetry events local and international.

Alexandra Nicod is a Swiss-Spanish poet, playwright and actress who was born in Switzerland and  lives in Spain. She speaks fluently German, Spanish, French as well as English and holds two  Bachelor degrees, one in translation from the Dolmetscherschule (DOZ) Zurich/Switzerland and  another one in Dramatic Art from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático (RESAD) Madrid/Spain. She has published several collections of poems and is the author of various theater plays  performed in theaters in Spain. As an actress she has worked in both theater and film with important  directors. As a poet she has participated in many international poetry festivals, for example in  Spain, Switzerland, Morocco, Greece and India. Her poems have been translated in numerous  languages (e.g. French, English, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Greek, Kurdish and  Bengali) and published in international poetry anthologies. Alexandra Nicod is a multifaceted artist  and poet, member of the Spanish General Society of Authors and Publishers and the Spanish Actors  Union.

Basilio Rodríguez Cañada is a publisher, writer, poet, teacher, columnist, Africanist and cultural manager. Professor of communication, publishing, management techniques and literary creation; President of Grupo editorial Sial Pigmalión; President of the Spanish PEN Club;. Lecturer at prestigious Spanish and foreign universities and at numerous national and international institutions. He has held several photographic exhibitions and his work has been published in various specialised media.  He has published seventeen collections of poetry and several anthologies of his work, which have received prestigious awards. He has been translated into several languages. He is a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Extremadura de las Letras y las Artes, the Academia Boliviana de la Lengua and the Academia Boyacense de la Lengua.

Mario De Caro is a Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at Roma Tre University and has also been teaching at Tufts University in Boston since 2000, where he serves as a Visiting Professor. He has been a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University, a Visiting Scholar at MIT, and President of the Italian Society for Analytical Philosophy. Currently, he is the President of the Italian Society for Moral Philosophy, the literary executor of Hilary Putnam, a board member of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP), and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. His published works include Azione (Il Mulino, 2008), Libero arbitrio (Laterza, 2020), Realtà (Bollati Boringhieri, 2020), Le sfide dell’etica (Mondadori, 2021), I valori al cinema (Mondadori, 2023), Liberal Naturalism (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), and Etica e intelligenza artificiale (Il Mulino, forthcoming). He has lectured and given courses at over one hundred universities in nineteen countries and has published more than two hundred scholarly articles in six languages. The asteroid 5329 De Caro was named in his honor, and in 2023 he was awarded the National Frascati Philosophy Prize.
His research focuses on moral philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, philosophy of cinema, and early modern philosophy. He has collaborated with Rai for the philosophical program Zettel and works with Enel and the Ministry of Culture on the relationship between ethics and artificial intelligence. He regularly contributes to the cultural supplements of La Stampa and Il Sole 24 Ore.

Roberto Galaverni literary critic, writes about contemporary literature in magazines and newspapers (‘Nuovi Argomenti’, ‘Alias-il manifesto’) and contributes to RadioTre Rai programmes. He is a cultural journalist for the Sunday supplement La Lettura of Corriere della Sera. He has written numerous essays on contemporary poetry. His latest publications are P.P.P. Poesie per Pasolini (Mondadori, 2022) and Carte Correnti (Fazi Editore, 2024). He is a jury member of the International Prize of poetry and fiction Europa in versi e in prosa.

Gianmarco Gaspari, lecturer at the University of Insubria, Director of the International Research Center for Local Histories and Cultural Diversities, of the FILIS (Formatori Interculturali di Lingua Italiana per Stranieri) first level Master's degree course, President of the Communication Sciences course at the University of Insubria and member of the Doctorate College in ‘Law and Humanities’ at the same University. He holds significant positions in various cultural initiatives at national level. He is President of the Jury of International Prize for poetry and fiction Europa in versi e in prosa.