John Avolio

After graduating in communications, he cultivated his passion for theater, working as an author, director, performer, and artistic director with various live events, eventually founding the cultural center and bookstore L'isola non trovato in Rome in 2014. In 2020, he was elected president of the independent bookstore network "Librerie di Roma" and began working at L'ora di libertà, a children's bookstore in Rome's Centocelle neighborhood. That same year, together with other collaborators, he launched the Totem publishing imprint of the Albero delle matita publishing house, focusing on the creation of playbooks, with which he published Castello Spavento in 2022. Throughout these years of change, the constant in his professional life has been his daily work with stories. Recently, he has also begun exploring new ways to promote reading through play.