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