Francesca Pesci lives and works in Florence where she was born .
After accomplishing her degree in Fine Arts at the Academy of Florence she attended a three-year professional specialization course at Comics Art, International School of Comics in Florence, which marked a turning point for her. As a free lance, she started to collaborate with some graphic design and advertising studios, up to the publication of her first illustrated book, The Silver Skates, by M. Mapes Dodge, Giunti Editore, in 2001.
During the latest years she has been collaborating as a comics colorist and she has also been in charge of the digital coloration of Walt Disney comics and French comics. Afterwards she has been working for several editors and publishers Italians and Europeans as children's book illustrator.