Having obtained his scientific high school diploma, Andrea Penna graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic University of the Marche. In 1983, he fulfilled his national service in the infantry at Chieti. Thereafter, he was hired by a regional research institute before working in the private sector as an administrator. He married in 1989 and has twin children and three rascal cats.In 2021, he wrote a novel Vento di Mare published in Italian which had some success and reached the finals of some literary competitions with awards and honorable mentions.