Licia Canton is the author of The Pink House and Other Stories (2018) and Almond Wine and Fertility (2008), translated into Italian as Vino alla mandorla e fertilità (2015). Her writing has been anthologized in English, French, Italian, Venetian and Chinese. She is (co)editor of fourteen volumes, including A Literary Harvest: Canadian Writing About Wine and Other Brews (2024) and Here & Now: An Anthology of Queer Italian-Canadian Writing (2021, 2024). She is the director of the documentary film Creative Spaces: Queer and Italian Canadian (2021).
She is also a literary translator and founding editor-in-chief of Accenti Magazine. She has mentored emerging writers through the QWF Mentorship Program and Hire a Writer Directory. For her work in culture, she received the Italy in the World Prize (2018). She holds a Ph.D. from Université de Montréal and an M.A. from McGill University.
