Valeria Usala was born in Cagliari, Italy, in 1993. After a bachelor’s degree in Languages and Communication and two Erasmus experiences in the Czech Republic and Spain, he studied filmmaking at the Ateneo del Cinema in Rome and then moved to Turin to pursue a degree in Storytelling at the Holden School in 2019. The title of his first novel is The Renegade, published in 2021 by Garzanti.