Mariateresa Conte was born in Taranto in 1976. After graduating in Law, she began to enter the world of comics and, in 2001, she was awarded the B. Jacovitti scholarship to study a master's degree in Illustration at the IED in Milan. In 2011 she graduated in Creative Illustration at the IED in Barcelona. As an illustrator, she has worked for several magazines of the GuJM group. She currently lives in Modena and is an editor at Panini Comics. She writes, draws and looks for inspiration at night at home, in the company of her cats Iago and Gilda.