Concita De Gregorio is a journalist, writer, and author for radio, television, and theatre. A long-time contributor to la Repubblica, she writes the daily column Invece Concita and the weekly column Casamatta for D magazine. She was editor-in-chief of l’Unità from 2008 to 2011 and has written for international newspapers including Clarín and El País.

She has created and hosted several radio and TV programs, such as Cactus, FuoriRoma, and Pane quotidiano. In 2023, she was editor-in-chief of the Italian edition of The Hollywood Reporter.

Her first book, Non lavate questo sangue (Don’t Wash This Blood, 2001), chronicles the G8 summit in Genoa and was later included in Giornalismo italiano 1860–2001 (Meridiani Mondadori). Her most acclaimed books include Una madre lo sa (2006), Malamore (2008), Così è la vita (2011), Io vi maledico (2013), Mi sa che fuori è primavera (2015, adapted into a theatrical monologue by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti), Cosa pensano le ragazze (2016), Non chiedermi quando (2016), Chi sono io? (2017), Nella notte and In tempo di guerra (2019), Lettera a una ragazza del futuro (2021), and Un’ultima cosa (2022, winner of the 2023 Rhegium Julii Prize), which was adapted into a theatrical production in 2025 featuring live music by Erica Mou and directed by Teresa Ludovico.

In 2017, she co-directed the documentary Lievito madre. Le ragazze del secolo scorso with Esmeralda Calabria, selected for the Venice Film Festival.

In 2024, she published In mezzo a un milione di rane e farfalle (Among a Million Frogs and Butterflies, Feltrinelli), illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna, followed in 2025 by Di madre in figlia (From Mother to Daughter, Feltrinelli) and in 2026 by La cura (Einaudi). She is also the narrator of the audiobook edition of Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women (La ragazza che scriveva racconti in Italian).

In 2024, she appeared on stage in the new production of L’origine del mondo, a play by Lucia Calamaro.

Her work has earned her several awards, including the Arrigo Benedetti Journalism Prize and the Legalitria Prize (both in 2019).