Francesco Verso

Francesco Verso was born in Bologna (Italy) in 1973. Graduated in Environmental Economics in 2001, he started his career in IBM. In 2008 he quit the business world to devote himself to writing. In 2004 "Antidoti umani" was finalist at Urania Mondadori Award. His second novel, e-Doll, marked his success with the Urania Award in 2009 as Best SF novel. His third book Livido (published in USA by Apex Books and Australia by Xoum as Nexhuman), won the 2013 Odyssey Award and the 2014 Italy Award for Best SF novel. In 2015 he won a second Urania Award with BloodBusters (ex-aequo with Sandro Battisti) a contemporary grotesque thriller novel. Beside writing, Francesco Verso is the Editor of a multicultural project called Future Fiction, scouting and publishing International authors such as James Patrick Kelly (US), Ian McDonald (Northern Ireland), Ken Liu (USA), Cixin Liu (China), Ekaterina Sedia (Russia), Michalis Manolios (Greece), Ken MacLeod (UK), Clelia Farris (Italy), David Marusek (US), Xia Jia (China), Pepe Rojo (Mexico), Olivier Paquet (France), Tom Crosshill (Latvia), Tendai Huchu (Zimbabwe), Pat Cadigan (U.S.A).He lives in Rome with his wife and daughter.