Mara Blefusco was born at the end of the eighties in a Mediterranean city. As a little girl she was fascinated by the smallest things in her home, imagining what life would be like if she were only a few centimetres tall. As she couldn’t stop being a normal-sized person, she decided to create her own stories. She currently lives in a house on a mountain, with a hedgehog, two tortoises, and a dog who thinks he's a cat. She spends most of her time reading, writing and drinking juice, and it's no secret that she prefers to be as evasive as the trackers. The Trackers. The Secret City is her first published novel.