Antonella Nicolì made writing her profession from a young age. She started out in regional journalism in her home canton of Glarus, got a bachelor's degree in multimedia production with a personal focus on text and photography, and later took a detour into corporate communications. Since 2018, she has been living and working as a copywriter in Zurich. In the summer of 2024, she graduated from the ZHdK with a master's degree in screenwriting.