Michelle Alfano’s personal memoir The Unfinished Dollhouse (Cormorant Books, 2017) was selected as one of The Globe 100 Best Books of the Year in 2017.

Her novella, Made Up of Arias, was the 2010 winner of the Bressani Award for Short Fiction. Her short story “Opera”, on which the novella was 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 including Descant, Prairie Fire, The Capilano Review, The Antigonish Review, Event, A Room of One’s Own and a number of anthologies.

Until 2015, Michelle Alfano (also known as A Lit Chick) served as an Associate Editor -in-Chief (Administration) with the prestigious literary quarterly Descant. She is also the co-organizer, with the esteemed poet George Elliott Clarke, of the annual Love Poetry Festival honouring Milton Acorn and Gwen MacEwen.