Ilaria Tuti
1976
Ilaria Tuti is an Italian crime and mystery fiction author from Gemona del Friuli in Udine. She went to college to study economics though she always had a creative streak and freelanced for an independent publisher that needed someone interested in painting. The award-winning author won the Gran Giallo Citta di Cattoloca prize for “The Pagan Child,” a short story she wrote in 2014. She published her debut novel “Flowers Over the Inferno” in 2019. She was born in a small village in northeastern Italy near the border with Slovenia and Austria. She still lives in the small village with her husband and Jasmine her daughter and two dogs. Since she was a child, she loved nature and spent a lot of time in the outdoors and this is evident in most of her novels. While she has become an award-winning novelist with the publication of her debut novel, she still works a day job as a procurement officer for a private company. When she is not writing her novels she loves to cook, read, paint, and also dabble in photography.