Alberta Bigagli was born in Sesto Fiorentino in 1928.

She has worked and done trade union activity. She graduated as a psychopedagogist she became a writer, critics, and researcher of poetic language. Among her numerous books, her first, the poetic prose L’amore e altro, came out in 1975 with the publisher Enrico Vallecchi and a preface by Carlo Betocchi. She founded important cultural bodies, was a contributor to literary periodicals, and instituted the Incontri di Linguaggio Espressivo (Meetings of Expressive Language) starting with La Tinaia in the then San Salvi Asylum. She was president of the ABBÌ - Psychology and Poetic Word Association and director of its six-monthly organ, 'Voce Viva'.

She passed away in Florence on 5 August 2017.