Marianna Coppo

Marianna Coppo was born and lives in Rome, where she writes and illustrates picture

books with the help of her cats.

She is the creator of over a dozen books including Petra, translated into 14 languages

and a Kirkus Best Picture Book of 2018 and nominee for the Kate Greenaway

Medal; Thingamabob, winner of the 34th Chen Bochui International Children's Literature

Award; and The Book That Can Read Your Mind, an Amazon, Indigo, and Barnes & Noble

Best Book of 2024 and finalist for the Andersen Award for Best Book for ages 6–9 in

2025. Her latest picture book, already translated into fourteen languages, is I Will Eat You

in the End, written by David Duff.

In 2025, she took part in the Maurice Sendak Fellowship in Connecticut.