Letícia Milano is a journalist and author. In her first life, she was a white, educated, middle-class Brazilian woman who also worked as a theatre director. When she moved to Germany, she became a Woman of Colour with her Latin American heritage. She mainly writes series, radio plays and games. With the exposé “Welcome in Germany“she won first prize in the TOP:Talente competition at the Berlinale 2016. In 2016/17 she was a scholarship holder at the Academy for Children’s Media with the
transmedia project . In 2021 she received a development grant for the series “Der Riss” with her co-author Otana Thiede, she received development funding from Filmförderung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.