Teresa Antonacci was born in 1964 in the province of Bari (Puglia, Italy) where she currently lives and works. She is a company manager and is married with three children and one granddaughter. La dodicesima stanza/The Twelfth Room is her fifth book, published by Les Flâneurs Edizioni in 2016. Her other publications include: Lasciami sognare (2012), Rinascerò pesce (2014), C’è modo e modo (2015), La casa della domenica (2015),Enrico fatto di vento (2017), Una storia imperfetta (2018), Quasi (2020). She has participated in numerous literary awards and in 2020 she was the winner of the XIV edition of the Premio Giovane Holden with her last book Quasi.