Massimo del Pizzo is an Italian science fiction writer and critic. From the Abruzzo region, del Pizzo teaches French Language and Literature in the Facoltà di Lingue of the Università degli Studi di Bari. He published studies on literary utopias, on fantasy and on French scientific imagination writing.
On the fiction front, he published a number of short stories in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Many of his stories verge on the dream-like, while other are closer to science-fiction.[citation needed]