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Liana Cusmano
BIO
Biography

Born and raised in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, Liana Cusmano, aka Luca and BiCurious George, is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, filmmaker and arts educator. They are the 2018, 2019 and 2023 Montreal Slam Champion, runner up in the 2019 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship, and a participant in the 2019 Spoken Word Residency Program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Liana has presented their work in English, French, and Italian across North America, Europe, and Asia. They wrote the screenplay for the short film La femme finale, screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; wrote and directed the award-winning Matters of Great Unimportance, screened at the 2019 Blue Metropolis Festival; and created « Peuple, Poésie, Politique » in the television documentary series Vivre ensemble (2021). They are Fiction Editor at the literary journal carte blanche and editor-at-large at Accenti Magazine. Their first novel, Catch & Release (2022), was published by Guernica Editions. They were a 2022 finalist for the QWF Spoken Word Prize.

 

 

ADDRESS
City: Montreal, Province/Territory: Quebec
EMAIL
GENRE
fiction, poetry, spoken word
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Catch and Release
Publisher
Guernica Editions
Year
2022
LINKS
Links
Watch “A Poem About My Grandmother”
Workshops offered through Artists Inspire
Workshops offered through the Répertoire culture-éducation
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Presentation details
Presentation Genre
fiction, poetry, spoken word
EQUITY INITIATIVE
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LGBTQI2S
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