Domenica Martinello

Domenica Martinello is the author of Good Want (Coach House Books, 2024) and All Day I Dream about Sirens (Coach House Books, 2019). The titular poem of Good Want won The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize, and the collection was longlisted for the 2025 Pat Lowther Award. Her work has twice appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, and she was awarded the carte blanche 3Macs Prize for nonfiction. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was granted the Provost Fellowship and the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Poetry. Her poems, reviews, and literary essays have been published widely in Canada and the United States. Domenica has contributed to the literary community as a juror, workshop facilitator, and member of the Board of Directors of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. She lives in Montreal.