Giulia Scomazzon was born in Vicenza in 1987. She holds a PhD in Literature and Media and, in 2021, she published the essay Crimine, colpa e testimonianza with Mimesis, focusing on the "true crime" phenomenon and its echo in mass culture. In 2023, she wrote the memoir La paura ferisce come un coltello arrugginito for Nottetempo, a touching autobiographical account in which, by processing the grief over the loss of her mother, who passed away at a very young age in 1994, she "renders a modicum of justice and truth to all those young women and men who died of AIDS despite having been drug addicts for only a brief period" (Gianni Montieri on minima&moralia). The book, which earned her the Premio Bagutta Opera Prima, was followed in 2025 by the novel 8.6 gradi di separazione: a candid story, with tragicomic undertones, about alcohol addiction in present-day Veneto.