About the author

Simonë Possenti Escamilla was born in Milan, Italy in 1995.

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He currently lives and works in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

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Between 2014 and 2019 he conducted his studies in six European universities, traveling across Italy, France and Belgium, while specialising in geography, sustainable development and the European Union external action. 

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He had several experiences of work and volunteering in Africa, including in Uganda, Tanzania, Togo, and Mali. ​

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Simonë started to write stories as a child, although it was in Rome, in 2012, that he got a first recognition being awarded with the first place in Italy Writes, a nationwide English-writing competition hosted by John Cabot University. 

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He had some publications in Italian and is now mostly working in English.