Ilaria Rossetti is an Italian writer.

She debuted in 2007 with the short story La leggerezza del rumore (Marsilio, 2007), which won the Premio Campiello Giovani. Her other published novels include Le cose da salvare (Neri Pozza, 2020), — winner of both the Premio Salerno Libro d'Europa and the Premio Lugnano, and a finalist for the Premio Wondy di Letteratura Resiliente — and La fabbrica delle ragazze (Bompiani, 2024), winner of the Premio Acqui Storia and a finalist for the Premio Biella Letteratura e Industria. In 2021, FVE Editori published her narrative essay Stig Dagerman – Il cuore intelligente.In 2023, Il Corriere della Sera, as part of Scuola Holden's Lezioni di Scrittura series, published her book Parole: dire la cosa giusta, o l'arte dell'esattezza.

Her latest novel is Qualcuno da odiare (Guanda, 2026).

As for the rest, it’s a mix of different and rather crazy things: she studied European and American Literature in Pavia and Cardiff, lived in London for a few years making cappuccinos and working for bloodthirsty multinationals, and traveled to Baku with a former British Army officer to promote a university course. In Ecuador, she once helped a ranger push a giant turtle into the sea at night, taught English to adults, and swam in the Rio Napo surrounded by piranhas. Back in Italy, from 2016 to 2019, she managed Caffè delle Arti in Lodi, a cultural hub that hosted over 160 events, where among other things she prepared killer cocktails.

For fifteen years, she has run writing and storytelling courses and workshops, and she is the founder of Small Publishing Studio, where she provides editorial services. Since 2022, she has been a lecturer at Scuola Holden in Turin and at Feltrinelli Education, teaching writing, narrative techniques, and literature.