Elisabetta Gnone

Elisabetta Gnone is an Italian writer and journalist born in Genoa. She joined Disney Italia in the early 1990s, writing for its magazines and launching the Italian Winnie the Pooh monthly in 1997. She co-created the comic W.I.T.C.H. in 2001 with Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa, which was later adapted into a television series. In 2005 she began the Fairy Oak fantasy series with The Secret of the Twins, a trilogy later extended with further books. Her later work includes the Olga di Carta books.