Michelle Alfano's personal memoir The Unfinished Dollhouse (Cormorant Books, 2017) was selected as one of The Globe 100 Best Books of the Year. Her novella, Made Up of Arias, was a 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. Michelle Alfano (also known as A Lit Chick) previously served as an Associate Editor with the prestigious literary quarterly Descant. She was the co-organizer of the Love Poetry Festival honouring Milton Acorn and Gwen MacEwen. 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 in six anthologies published respectively by: Prentice Hall, Quarry Press, Italian Canadiana, Guernica Editions, Red Deer Press and Legas Publishing. She is currently at work on a novel entitled Julia at the Wedding.