Marta Gerardi was born in Mirano (Venice) on March 5th, 1978. She is a comic-strip writer, graphic designer and illustrator. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and then she started working for TAMassociati, a studio specialised in sustainable architecture, urban planning and landscape design. In 2012 she published the comic-strip book Architetture resistenti, which presents examples of fine civic construction in Italy.