Francesca Tassini graduated in 2004 from the daytime screenwriting program at the Civic School of Cinema, TV and New Media (now the Civic School of Cinema Luchino Visconti). Since 2004, she has been a screenwriter, novelist, editor, and fiction editor for publishing houses, a copywriter, and a story writer. In 2025, Indelebile, a coming-of-age thriller starring Fabrizio Ferracane and Giulia Dragotto (Anna by Ammaniti), was released in theaters. In 2012, she wrote her first feature film screenplay, produced by Rosso Film and Bartleby, which received prestigious awards including TIFF, the Cicae Art Cinema at the Annècy Film Festival, FICE, and MIFF in Moscow, and was nominated for the 2013-14 David di Donatello Awards. She has published Come mosche nel miele (Solferino, RCS), a finalist for the Wondy Prize for resilient literature, and a Severino Cesari Prize (Umbria Libri). Her young adult mystery novels Snow Black and Snow Black Senza Cuore were adapted into a television series of the same name, produced in 2021 by Rai, which has two seasons under its belt. Between 2024 and 2025, the following books were released: Arena (Zona42), a weird-horror novella; Canti del Ferro (Cosmo Books), illustrated by Daniele Serra (three-time winner of the British Fantasy Award); and MangiAmi (Tunuè), a graphic novel based on an original idea by Tassini and M. Pasqualotto. In 2008, the screenplay for Spighe won first prize for Best Original Screenplay at the Bra Film Festival. She is currently working on several film and TV series projects, runs writing workshops for adults and young adults, teaches at the Civica and the Scuola Internazionale di Comics, and is a book editor for the Mondadori group.