Alex L. Mainardi was born and lives in Parma, where they actively dedicates to writing.

Passionate about mythology and archeology, they is a fiction author who, after having published two literary sagas and a series of illustrated books, they has create in 2018 Casa Ailus, a collective of authors and illustrators who make pubblications in various areas of the fantastic.

They is a cosplayer since 2003 and they has made over 70 costumes (now wheelchair included) won in many Italian events.

At eighteen they discovers they has a rare degenerative genetic disease, Friedreich's Ataxia, believing that them life was over and them future was burned they went into depression period, because they had become disabled.

Cosplay made them react because it offers them the chance to take a break from them real life by always playing different characters, so they began to consider every problem in life only as a challenge.

They loves challenges.

Currently, when they is not working as a writer, they can be found at the events or on the cosplay contests jury, obviously in costume ... wheelchair included!