Veronica Raimo was born in Rome, where she also lives today. Her first novel Il dolore secondo Matteo [Pain According to Matteo] was published by minimum fax, as was also the story ‘Come nessuna madre avrebbe mai fatto’ [A Mother Would Never Have Done It] in the anthology Tu sei lei. Empiria published her poems in the anthology Fuori dal cielo [You Are Her]. Raimo also works as a translator for a number of publishing houses, and contributes regularly to Rolling Stone.