Michelle Alfano is a Toronto writer, a Co-editor with the literary quarterly Descant and co-organizer of The (Not So) Nice Italian Girls and Friends Reading series (www.notsoniceitaliangirls.blogspot.com) Her short story “Opera”, on which her new novella Made Up Of Arias (Blaurock Press, 2008) is based, was a finalist for a Journey Prize anthology. Her fiction and non-fiction work has been widely published in Canada in major literary publications, and has also appeared in the U.S. She will be featured in a forthcoming documentary on the passengers, and the children of the passengers, of the Saturnia, an immigrant ship which transported thousands of Italian-born immigrants to Canada in the 1950s and 60s and which will be featured on OMNI-TV. You may find her writing at /alitchick.blogspot.com.

George Amabile has published in Canada, the USA, England, Wales, Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand in over a hundred anthologies, magazines, journals and periodicals including The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, The New Yorker Book of Poems, Saturday Night, The New Yorker, Harper's, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Poetry Australia, Sur (Buenos Aires), Poetry Canada Review, Canadian Literature, and Margin (England). He has edited The Far Point, Northern Light and has published eight books. The Presence of Fire (McClelland & Stewart, 1982) won the CAA National Prize; his long poem, Durée, placed third in the CBC Literary Competition (1991); "Popular Crime" took first prize in the Sidney Booktown International Poetry Contest (2000); "Road to the Sky" received an Honorable Mention in the National Magazine Awards for 2000, and "Dimuendo" was awarded third place in the Petra Kenney International Poetry Competition for 2005. His most recent publication is Tasting the Dark: New and Selected Poems (The Muses Company, an imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc. Winnipeg, 2001).

Rita Amabili est née à Montréal mais habite la banlieue avec son mari et ses trois enfants. Après une expérience d'une quinzaine d'années comme assistante-infirmière chef, elle se dirige vers l'écriture. Elle a écrit deux livres pour enfants (Éditions de la Paix et Parenthèses) qui font partie des bibliothèques de plusieurs associations humanistes, de nombreuses poésies et pièces de théâtre dont certaines ont été jouées dans des endroits aussi renommés que la Cathédrale de Montréal. Elle a été animatrice d'une émission radiophonique hebdomadaire durant 5 ans. Elle a fait des cours d'animation de groupe, d'accompagnement en fin de vie, de mise en scène. Rita complète un BAC en théologie. Ses pièces de théâtre sont publiées sur le site d'ADEL Inc. (Librairie de l'Association québécoise des auteurs dramatiques) Rita Amabili est impliquée professionnellement au niveau de la famille. Elle est membre de plusieurs associations littéraires.

IMPLICATIONS PROFESSIONNELLES

- Membre de ADEL inc. (Auteurs dramatiques en ligne).
- Membre de l'Association des auteurs de la Montérégie (A.A.M.)
- Membre de l'Union des écrivains et écrivaines du Québec. (U.N.E.Q.)
- Membre de l'Association des Écrivains pour la Jeunesse (A.E.J.O.)
- Membre de l'Association régionale des Marchigiani "ALMA CANADA Inc.".
- Fondatrice des Éditions Guido Amabili (1999)
- Membre de l'Association "Signis": Association catholique mondiale pour la communication.
- Membre de l'AQAD: Association québécoise des auteurs dramatiques

PIÈCES DE THÉÂTRE

Toutes ses pièces de théâtre est accessible à l'adresse : http://www.adelinc.qc.ca

LITTÉRATURE

Les anges d'Angélica autour de mon pays : roman jeunesse sur les problèmes d'enfants de pays riches; est publié aux Éditions Parenthèses depuis le 9 novembre2001.

Un bourgeon deviendra famille : écrit pour l'Office de la famille de Montréal. Ce livre peut être simplement une histoire ou encore un outil pour l'animation d'un groupe ou d'une famille. Publié en mai 97 par L'Office de la famille de Montréal.

Voyage sur Angélica : roman jeunesse qui parle des problèmes des enfants du monde, de la collection 9 ans et plus. Publié à l'occasion du dixième anniversaire de la Convention relative aux droits des enfants. Éditions de la Paix 1999. Ce livre fait partie de la bibliothèque :

- Centre Canadien d'étude et de coopération internationale (C.E.C.I.)
- Association des chrétiens pour l'abolition de la torture (A.C.A.T.)
- Oxfam-Québec
- Unicef

La force de l'amour : Trente poésies qui parlent d'amour et de famille jumelées à certaines peintures de l'artiste Sylvie Michon. Éditions Guido Amabili, 1999

Guido, le roman d'un immigrant : roman historique, Éditions Hurtubise HMH, 352 p. (ISBN 2894287631)


Participation au Coffret Mille mots d'amour pour le Centre Les Impatients, février 2006

ANIMATIONS

Sur invitation, elle offre des animations et des conférences, dans les écoles, dans les bibliothèques ou dans tout autre groupe. Certaines de ses conférences sont annoncées à la Fédération des Sociétés d'histoire du Québec : http://www.histoirequebec.qc.ca

Selon la demande, je touche à plusieurs sujets :

L'immigration italienne au Canada

Les droits des enfants selon la Convention relative aux droits des enfants et mon livre {{ Voyage sur Angélica }}

Les femmes en Église : allusion à la théologie féministe

L'art d'écrire et les cours…

1. {{ De l'idée au livre }}
2. {{ Lire, dire, écrire }}
3. {{ Retravailler son texte, réécrire! }}
4. {{ Écrire… de l'idée au livre!! }}
5. D'autres cours sur l'écriture, selon les besoins de chacun.

Elettra Bedon, nata a Padova, dopo aver completato gli studi in Italia si è trasferita a Montréal (Canada) dove ha conseguito, presso l' Università Mc Gill, un Dottorato di Ricerca, approfondendo gli studi sulla letteratura in lingua veneta del ventesimo secolo.

Ha pubblicato, novelle e romanzi per ragazzi, poesie e saggi su poeti in lingua veneta. Ha curato la sezione Veneto in una antologia in inglese, dedicata alla poesia nei dialetti dell' Italia settentrionale.

Sono uscite le seguenti pubblicazioni :

Il bottone, (romanzo per ragazzi), Edarc, Firenze, 2008
Prier avec l'Ecriture, (spiritualità), Novalis, Ottawa, 2008-06-10
Le chemin de Marie, (méditer le Rosaire),Novalis, Ottawa, 2007
Writing Beyond History, (An Anthology of Prose and Poetry), Cusmano, Montreal, 2006, pp.34-38.
Yoshua, Manni, San Cesario di Lecce, 2005.
Shaping History,(L'identità italo-canadese nel Canada anglofono),Forum, Udine, 2005, pag. 163-167.
L'évangile en tableax, Mediaspaul, Montréal, 2005
Liber Miscellus Canadensis (poesia), Marsilio, Venezia, 2002
Dopo una vita vissuta (poesie), in The Dynamics of Cultural Exchange, Cusmano Communications, Montreal, 2002, pp. 141-146.
Veneto, in Dialect Poetry of Northern & Central Italy, LEGAS, Brooklyn, NY, 2001, pp.287-359.
Le mani saccadiche di Cesare Ruffato (saggio critico), in I quaderni di Hebenon, Torino, 2000, pp. 14 - 17.
Al di là della veste (saggio critico), Hebenon, Milano, 2000
Il filo di Arianna (letteratura del XX secolo in lingua veneta), Longo ed., Ravenna, 1999
L'angelo sulla terrazza (saggio critico), in Diverse linguE, n° 17/18, Udine, 1998, pp. 133-154.
Con altre parole (poesia), Montfort & Villeroy, Montréal, 1998
Voci di G. (saggio critico), in Diverse linguE , n° 17/18, Udine, 1998, pp. 51-60.
Storie di Eglia (narrativa), Montfort & Villeroy, Montréal, 1998
Mio zio l'investigatore (ragazzi), Montfort & Villeroy, Montréal, 1998
La riflessione poetica di Cesare Ruffato : una lettura strategica, in La Battana, Fiume-Rijeka, 1997, pp. 26-35.
Francesca : immagine esemplare del « declive » dell'etica, in i libri di Steve, n° 22, Modena, 1997, pp. 126-140.
Lingua d'origine (letture ed esercizi per l' insegnamento dell' italiano, VI elementare), Montfort & Villeroy, Montréal, 1992
Lingua d'origine (c.s. V elementare), Montfort & Villeroy, 1991
Vi racconto di Gesù (ragazzi), EMP, Padova, 1991
Lingua d'origine (c.s. IV elementare), Montfort & Villeroy, 1990
Lingua d'origine (c.s. III elementare), Montfort & Villeroy, 1989
Ma l'estate verrà ancora (ragazzi), La Scuola ed., Brescia, 1985

Saggi, racconti e poesie sulle riviste di Montréal Viceversa, Moebius, XYZ, Arcade, Arts cinéma lettres, Imagine, Accenti e Descant di Toronto.

Playwright Frank Canino was born and raised in Chicago. He received his M.A. in theatre at Catholic University then worked in New York. Thereafter he trained or worked in Canada, England, Poland, France and the U.S. as director, actor, teacher and dramaturg. Writing projects range from film scripts to musicals and dramas. His awards include a full Toronto Arts Council Grant and both year-long and short term grants from the Canada Council of the Arts, in addition to 30 awards and citations for scripts. His plays have been performed/read or workshopped in New York, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sarasota, Hartford, and Memphis, and from Long Island to Texas and Alaska.

He was a member at the Shenandoah International Playwrights Retreat. the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Last Frontier-Edward Albee Playwrights' Conference in 2002. Canadian residencies include: Sage Hill Playwrights Lab, Booming Ground, the Banff Radio Drama Workshop, the Humber Writers Workshop and the U. Of Toronto Writers' Workshop. In addition, he has had articles published in The Dramatist, Canadian Theatre Review, and the Canadian Playwrights' Guild Can-Play. Several of his short pieces have been produced Off-Off-Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Source/Homogenius Festival, Expanded Arts, Synchronicity Theatre Group, Myriad Arts Festival, Lamia Ink! Festival, and Theatrix Shorts Festival. Toronto productions include the New Ideas Festival, Festival of Original Theatre, and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. The Angelina Project , published by Guernica Editions in June of 2000, has been produced at University of Hartford, University of Alaska/Anchorage, Chance Theatre, California, and several high schools across Texas.

Frank has written for the screen through the National Film Board's Video Drama Workshop and was script editor for Pacun Peras Productions for five years. He also co-wrote Looking for Angelina for Platinum Image Films, Canada. The film has been shown in Canada, Italy and India and received three awards to date. It is slated for cable showings soon and will then go to DVD. Look for it!

Licia Canton is a literary critic, translator and author of Almond Wine and Fertility (2008), a collection of stories for women and their men. She is also the editor-in-chief of Accenti Magazine and co-editor of the Canadian literature page of Bibliosofia. She holds a Ph.D. from Université de Montréal and has published articles, essays, interviews and short stories in English and Italian. She has also edited The Dynamics of Cultural Exchange (2002), Adjacencies: Canadian Minority Writing (with Beneventi & Moyes, 2004), and Writing Beyond History (with De Santis & Fazio, 2006). Forthcoming is a book of essays on Italian Canadian literature and Antonio D'Alfonso: Essays on His Works (Guernica 2008). An active member of the AICW, she is also on the board of directors of the Quebec Writers' Federation and a member of the Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois. She lives in Montreal with her husband and three children.

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Domenico Capilongo lives in Toronto, with his family. He teaches high school creative writing, alternative education and practices karate. He has had work published in several literary magazines including Descant, Vallum, Lichen, Acta Victoriana, The New Quarterly, Voices of Italian Americana, Accenti and dANDelion. He won an Honorable Mention in the Toronto Star 2004 Poetry Contest and his first book of poetry, "I thought Elvis was Italian" is coming out in the spring of 2008 with Wolsak and Wynn.

Ernesto Carbonelli è nato a Supino (Fr) il 5 di Dicembre del 1938. Dopo i consueti anni di scuola elementare ha proseguito verso gli studi classici fermandosi però al diploma di scuola media. Dopo gli studi si è dedicato ad imparare un mestiere e mentre la meccanica e l’elettromeccanica erano la scelta per la disponibilità si è poi diretto verso la nascente elettronica. Con un diploma in scienze elettroniche conseguito con corsi serali è emigrato in Canadà nel 1965. Lo scrivere, in special modo in dialetto, è sempre stato la sua passione e nel 1986 ha pubblicato la sua prima raccolta di poesie “Fieno Secco”, in italiano, e subito dopo “La Rava” in dialetto. Ha curato parecchie pubblicazioni per conto di associazioni sociali e nel 1990 ha pubblicato “La Rava allu Frisco”, anche in dialetto. L’ultimo lavoro, “Eroi e Vittime Dimenticati”, a carattere autobiografico è del 2005.

My name is Giovanna M.R. Capozzi (maiden name Liggio). I am 33 years old and proud to be of Sicilian origin. My parents come from Corleone, Palermo. I teach high school French at William L. Mackenzie Institute in Toronto. I have a B.A in English and French and also obtained an Italian fluency certificate at York University. I write in English, Italian and French. I write poetry, prose and non-fiction (commentaries of society's ever changing "unchangeables"). I am writing an anthology of short stories based on one character who shares her experiences as an immigrant's daughter through her own voice and through observations of others. This anthology will emphasize the beauty of the Sicilian reality. I hope I succeed. I have not published any work. I won a contest in Abateggio, Abruzzi 2 years ago with a small collection of Italian poetry. I would like to become a well-known author in the future. My goal is to share the beauty of the Italian culture not only to my son (two and a half years old) but to the new generation of Italo-Canadians. We are more than just food and soccer. Our culture is rich of historical influences that makes us unique.

Lisa Carducci was born in Canada to a molisano father and a French Canadian mother. She graduated in Linguistics at the University of Montreal. After a teaching career in Canada, she moved to China in 1991, and taught two more years in a Beijing university. Then, she worked for six years for the China Central Television (overseas service), followed by seven years at the Beijing Review, French edition. She was born with a pencil in her hand and is the author of 40 books in four languages, and she has written almost 2,000 articles on a wide variety of topics, published in several countries. Besides her career as a writer, she is an autodidact artist, with 20 or so exhibitions at her credit.

In September 2001, Lisa Carducci was granted the Friendship Award of the People's Republic of China "for her outstanding contribution to the international friendship and her enthusiastic support to the construction of a modern China." In 2005, she was one of the first foreigners in China to receive the Chinese green card or permanent residence in the PRC.

Recent publications and awards:

· Voyage, Prix d’édition poétique de la Ville de Dijon 2006, 88 p.
· L’Oeuf à deux jaunes (short stories), Prix d’édition de Val de Seine,
  Editinter, 2006, 136 p.
· E se parlassimo della Cina (essay), Beijing, Casa editrice in Lingue
  estere, 2007, 246 p.
· Vivre la Chine à ma façon (essay), Beijing, FLP, 2007, 295 p.

Donna Caruso, a writer of Italian descent, writes for radio, stage, print and screen. Her writing has appeared in numerous anthologies of short stories and radio drama, and has aired on CBC radio since 1983. Donna has written original musical comedies for children which toured elementary schools in Saskatchewan, as well as one-woman shows for adults including The Clothesline, Grace Before Meals, and A Celebration of the Mess. Donna's first collection of short stories, Under Her Skin, was published in 1999 by Thisledown Press. Her second book, Journey Without A Map, a collection of creative non-fiction stories about growing up Italian, also published by Thistledown Press, March of 2008.

Donna Caruso is also a documentary filmmaker, who makes her home in Saskatchewan under blue skies and puffy clouds that remind her of the best of Michelangelo's church ceilings. Desperately rooted in her Italian culture, Donna makes award-winning films and videos rich in sumptuous images; films and videos which tell stories with a personal intimacy that heals and heartens. Donna's films and videos have been broadcast nationally in Canada and have won awards internationally.

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Pietro Corsi was born in the region of Molise (Italy) in 1937. During the mid-50's he moved to Rome, where he worked as a translator while co-creating radio programs for RAI, the official Italian radio organization. He was visiting Canada in 1959, when he was offered a job by the Italian weekly newspaper "Il Cittadino Canadese." During that time, he wrote his first work of fiction: Enne (Campobasso, 1982); in English, Winter in Montreal (Guernica, 2000), winner of the F.G.Bressani Prize, in 2002. Pietro Corsi later changed venue, effectively pioneering Italian service standards in the cruise industry. Promoted Operating Manager for Princess Cruises, of Love Boat fame, he established residence in California in 1969. He was covering the position of Executive Vice President in 1992, when he retired to resume his writing career. He has authored several books ranging from fiction to essays, cookbooks and training manuals for the cruise industry, including: Sweet Banana (NLG: Burbank, 1984); in Italian, Un certo giro di luna (Beta: Roma, 1987). Lo sposo messicano (Dalia: Roma, 1989). Amori tropicali di un naufrago (Dalia: Roma, 1989). Il morbo dell'ozio Ripostes (Salerno, 1994). Omicidio in un paese di cacciatori (Enne: Campobasso, 2000). Halifax: l'altra porta d'America (Iannone Editore: Isernia, 2003).

Anthony D'Addese is a retired high school teacher from Montreal. He was born in Gesualdo,Avellino,where he received his first Teaching Diploma (Diploma Magistrale). He then moved to Canada where he continued his studies, first at Loyola College in Montreal where he got his B.A. and then a Baccalauréat En Pédagogie from the Université de Montréal.
He did graduate studies in the USA where he obtained an M. A. He has taught for the English Catholic School Board of Montreal from 1959-1991. Last year he published a book of Proverbs, Sayings, Clichés.................Multilingual Anthology in 5 languages : English, French, Italian, Spanish and Latin. This is the first book of its kind to be published in Canada by Legas Publishing and distributed by the University of Toronto Press.
In his spare time he writes speeches for various social events.
For more info : anthony_daddese@yahoo.com

Marisa De Franceschi was born in Muris (Udine), Italy. She came to Canada in 1948 and grew up in Windsor, Ontario where she graduated from the University of Windsor. She taught for over twenty five years. Her short stories, articles, and book reviews have appeared in a variety of Canadian publications including, Canadian Author & Bookman, The Mystery Review and The Dynamics of Cultural Exchange. Her fiction has been published in a number of anthologies and she has twice been the recipient of The Okanagan Short Story Award. Surface Tension (Guernica Editions, 1994) was her first novel. She edited Pillars of Lace (Guernica Editions, 1998) an anthology of Italian-Canadian women writers and The Many Faces of Woman, a short story collection. (River City Press, 2001). Family Matters (Guernica Editions, 2001), her own short story collection, came out in 2001. She has completed another novel and a collection of prose poetry and she also contributes to the magazine "Accenti."

Claudia Del Balso has published six short stories; one of them received the Award of Excellence in the Anthology Summer Tapestry, 2008 and the other one was published in The Golden Road, 2009, both for the Poetry Institute of Canada. The other four appear in the literary magazine Maple Tree Literary Supplement. On May 4, 2010 she interviewed McGill Emeritus professor David Lank who was awarded the Order of Canada in 1996. She also interviewed three Canadian authors: Steven Manners, Michael Mirolla, and Len Gasparini. Mirolla's and Gasparini's interview are scheduled to appear in Bibliosofia on July 1st and September 1st respectively. In the fall she'll be working as the Assistant Editor for Writers and Authors online magazine. She has edited two books for Garev Publishing International. She currently blogs about writing and publishing at www.claudiadelbalso.blogspot.com.

Alberto Mario DeLogu was born in Sardinia, Italy, in 1961. Since 1992 he has been commuting between Europe and North America, where he made a home for himself, his wife Angela and son Gabriele Marco, in the city of Montréal, Canada.
Agronomist and economist by trade, he has published several technical papers and articles, and co-authored The World Cashew Economy in 1993. He is now editor-in-chief of the magazine Trentagiorni.com, published in Toronto.
His poetry collections La biodiversità delle parole (2003), and Cetre appese (2004) were both published in Toronto by Lyrical Myrical. In 2005 he was awarded the Gramsci prize for the Sardinian-language poem S’iskèras. His poetry collection Transamanti won the 2006 Città di Salò literary award. He is an active member of the Association of Italian Canadian Writers.

Delia De Santis was born in Italy and immigrated to Canada with her family when she was thirteen. Her writing has been published in magazines in Canada, England, Italy, and the USA. She has won literary prizes and her work has appeared in several anthologies, including The Anthology of Italian Canadian Writing (Guernica, 1998), Pillars of Lace (Guernica, 1998), In all directions (Canadian Authors Association and Fitzhenry & Whiteside), The Many Faces of Woman (Rivercity Press, 2001). Delia is the co-editor of the anthologies Sweet Lemons: Writings with a Sicilian Accent (Legas, 2004) and Writing Beyond History: An anthology of Prose and Poetry (Cusmano 2006). She is a member of the Canadian Authors Association. Delia has two grown sons, and lives with her husband in Bright's Grove, Ontario.

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco has authored 17 collections of poetry since 1976 and was a seminal figure in Canadian Multiculturalism with his edition of the first anthology of Italian-Canadian writers and through his collaborative work with the Multiculturalism Directorate, the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. He was born in Arezzo, Italy, raised in Montreal, Baltimore and Toronto and did post-graduate work at the University of Toronto. In 1984 he removed himself from the world of letters and became an Augustinian Brother, and was subsequently ordained to the Roman Catholic Priesthood. He returned to the world of literature and education in 2000 with four successive volumes of verse, including "The Dark Time of Angels" which was nominated for the Trillium Award in 2004. In 2004 he was the Emilio Goggio Visiting Professor in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto and appointed by the City of Toronto as its second Poet Laureate.

Fr. Di Cicco is presently involved in generating "legacy" projects for the City of Toronto in the area of advocacy for the arts. These projects are both of a physicalist nature and a theoretical nature with particular attention to the breakdown of art as "destination points" and the interpenetration of art and commerce and other sectors of the cultural industry. His ideas on civic aesthetic have been useful to the notion of "creative cities" in forums ranging from urban design and architecture, to public spacing and issues of diversity in the global city. He is currently a member of The Creative Cities Strategies Leadership Team co-visioned by the Province of Ontario and The City of Toronto to develop strategies to build Toronto and Ontario's creative capacity. His contributions to the Mayor's Round-Table on the Arts have been widely broadcast and publicized in federal and municipal discussion from Florida to Vancouver. He has been a speaker at Moses Znaimer's "ideacity", the 2006 World Association of Major Metropolis , The Creative Place and Spaces Conference (Artscape) and The 10th International Metropolis Conference in 2005. He has been advisor to the Toronto Branding Project, The Maytree Foundation's Diaspora Dialogues Creative Tampa Bay and other initiatives in the contemporary urban. He us Curator of the Humanita Museum and Center for Global Cities. His poems appear weekly in The Toronto Star and he teaches at the University of Toronto. His monographs in civic aesthetic can be accessed at:

http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/culture/poet_laureate.htm

Travel writer Marcello Di Cintio has enjoyed stints abroad in Africa and the Middle East. His first book, Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa, chronicled the author's ten month journey through eight African countries. The book won the Henry Kreisel Prize for Best First Book at the Alberta Book Awards and was nominated for several other prizes. Di Cintio's next book will follow his travels through Iran in search of Persian poets and traditional wrestlers.

Di Cintio is a member of the Writer's Union of Canada, PEN Canada and the Writer's Guild of Alberta. He lives in Calgary with his fiance Moonira.

Bruna Di Giuseppe-Bertoni immigrated with her family to Canada in 1964. Painting and writing has been a passion all her life. Some of her poetry has received awards and been published in various magazines and anthology in both Italian and English. She has had short stories published in Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme and Wordscape, an anthology of mystery and suspense. Her work has been selected to be part of the new revised literary anthology, Italian Canadian Voice. Published by Mosaic Press 2006 As an artist, she has painted on porcelain. Currently she is painting with watercolours and acrylic. Her work has been exhibited in several art shows. Her most recent collection of poetry, Sentieri D'Italia, was published in Italian by Lyricalmyrical (Toronto, 2004). She is currently working on a novel, My Mother, My Legacy. In her profession as a Social worker she is involved within the Italian community with seniors, disabled and mental health patients.

Sonia Di Placido is a graduate of the Ryerson Theatre School, Acting (1996). She has performed and worked as an actor, theatre director, drama coach, dramaturge and playwright in the UK and in Italy (‘96/97). Between 1993 and 1996 she took part in the Tarragon Spring Arts Fair, performed in Romeo and Juliet, under the Bathurst Street Bridge and performed in two plays at the Annex Theatre. Sonia has experience in the publishing and performing arts industries as a performing artist, a publicity and marketing specialist and as an arts administrator/fundraiser. She has worked for the Canadian Press, Toronto Life Magazine and Transcontinental Media GTC. She holds a post-graduate certificate in Magazine Publishing from Ryerson University, 2003, an Honours BA in Humanities from York University, 2006. She published her first chapbook of poetry, Vulva Magic, (2004 with LyricalMyracle Press. Her second chapbook of poems, Forest Primitive, with Aelous House Press in 2008. She is currently working on her Master of Fine Art in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia (2009) publicist for Canadian Scholars' Press/Sumach Press/Women's Press and Kellom Books.

Her most recent book, a collection of short stories, The Island of the Nightingales, Won the 2000 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Short Fiction. Her novel, The Lion's Mouth has received much critical and academic attention and was published in French last year. She has also published a book of novellas: Whiter Shade of Pale/ Becoming Emma and many short stories and essays in various magazines and anthologies. Her play Terra Straniera was produced professionally in Edmonton and published by Guernica Editions under the title Homeground. Caterina has also co-edited two books of life writing by women: Eating Apples: Knowing Women's Lives and Wrestling with the Angel: Women Reclaiming their Lives and is currently working on a work of creative non-fiction, At Home: An Istrian Story as well as having a novel, The Sicilian Wife, waiting for a final edit. A collection of essays by critics from Canada, the U.S., and Italy, Caterina Edwards: Essays on Her Work was the first book published by Guernica in its series on Canadian writers.