Alessio (Alex) Girotti was born in Rome and emigrated to Los Angeles in 1979, at age 28, to work as a screenwriter in the movie business. He is now a US citizen. Alex is a fiction writer, a percussionist and a sculptor. He presently divides his life between the island of Grand Turk, in the Caribbean, and the medieval village of Alviano, in Umbria. The message of his work is very simple: pursue beauty, however you define it and wherever you find it.