Desidera Rayner has worked as an editor for over twenty years. She obtained a degree in Philosophy from Rome University Sapienza. After some work experience in journalism (beginning in L’Espresso New York correspondents' offices and then in Rome for Rai News 24), she was an author for the Rai 3 TV show Blob and the Rai Radio 3 radio show Golem. She then specialized in the editing of auteur documentaries, such as Agostino Ferrente’s The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio (2006), Chiara Bondì’s and Isabel Achaval’s Las Leonas (2022), and films, including Luigi Lo Cascio’s The Ideal City (2012), Valerio Mieli’s Ricordi? (2018), and Dario Albertini’s Anima bella (2022).