About

MARINA CUOLLO

Writer, host, podcaster, and DEIA consultant. She has published essays and novels with Fandango Libri, Einaudi, and BeccoGiallo, and contributes to several media outlets, including Vanity Fair. Her work focuses on discrimination, bias, and the representation of disability in media.

In 2021, she co-hosted the Diversity Media Awards with Diego Passoni. In 2022, she took the stage at TEDxCuneo, where, with her understated wit, she spoke about how inaccurate representations can affect people from marginalized groups.

Books

Marina Cuollo is the author of novels, essays, and illustrated books exploring disability, discrimination, bias, and and media representation.

Her debut book, A Disabilandia si tromba (the book is currently out of print), was published by Sperling & Kupfer (Milan, 2017), while Viola, published by Fandango Libri (Rome, 2022), is her first novel. In 2024, Einaudi published Distorsioni. La falsata rappresentazione della disabilità nelle narrazioni filmiche as part of its Quanti series. In 2025, she published La disabilità spiegata ai bambini e alle bambine. Azzurra e la giornata delle idee with BeccoGiallo and Abilisti fantastici e dove trovarli with Fandango Libri.

Her writing includes contributions to the anthologies La Bibbia dei non credenti (Piemme, Milan, 2018), Anche questo è femminismo (Edizioni Tlon, Rome, 2021), and Corpi ribelli (Sperling & Kupfer, Milan, 2023).

Podcast

Together with Jacopo Cirillo, Marina co-hosted Criptonite, a podcast exploring disability representation and challenging stereotypes across media, culture, and everyday life.

Contact

If you’d like to contact me for speaking engagements, training, or other professional events, please write to:  contact-cuollo@elastica.eu

For anything related to film or television, you can contact my wonderful agency: Queerky