Barbara Baraldi

Barbara Baraldi (born February 17, 1975, in Mirandola, Modena) arrived in the world of comics having already built a distinguished career as a writer of crime fiction and thrillers. In 2006 she won the Premio Gran Giallo Città di Cattolica with a short story, and the following year she made her debut in long-form fiction with the novel La collezionista di sogni infranti. She went on to publish novels and short stories with Mondadori, Castelvecchi, Einaudi, and Giunti, several of which were later translated and published abroad, among them the Scarlett trilogy and the saga featuring profiler Aurora Scalviati. Her debut in comics came in 2011 with Delos Book, after which she collaborated with the Walt Disney Company and published in France with Soleil. She joined Sergio Bonelli Editore in 2012, when a short story of hers appeared in the ninth Dylan Dog Color Fest. She has tied her entire Bonelli career to the character created by Tiziano Sclavi, also becoming its editorial curator beginning in the spring of 2023.