Leonardo Staglianò was born in Poland in 1978 but he grew up in Italy. After a Degree in Philosophy at the University of Florence, he attended a Masters in Narration Techniques at the Scuola Holden in Turin. He published the novel Il tempo di una bic (Monteleone, 1999) and the short story La caduta delle rane, inserted into the Il Bestiario anthology (Zandegù, 2006). He also wrote the play Andrea Witz (2001), produced by the Teatro Studio in Scandicci, and, with others, the radioplay In fondo la notte (2005), produced by the Radio Switzerland Italy. He was selected for the third edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus as a screenwriter (2005), and for the second edition of the European Short Pitch (2008).

He recently moved to New York, where he has been admitted to the Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing at the Tisch School of the Arts of the New York University.