Graziana Marziliano was born in the province of Bari and currently lives in Bologna. In 2020 she obtained a BA in Modern Literature at the University of Bologna, and in 2023 a MA in Italian Studies with a thesis concerning feminist and queer perspectives in contemporary Italian fiction. She curates the queer-transfeminist literary review String Figures, together with Lo Spazio Letterario, an association dealing with contemporary literature in Bologna that she helped to found. She has written a short story regarding adolescence and violence against queer people in Southern Italy, soon to be published in an anthology.