Riccardo Vecchio, nacido en 1970, vive y trabaja en Nueva York. Colaboraciones: Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Suddeutsche Zeitung Der Spiegel, The Wall Street Journal, Vibe, The Washington Post, Penguin Books, Wired Magazine, L'Espresso y La Repubblica.