Selena Mercuri is a Toronto-based, Italian-Cuban writer and MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. Her work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Literary Review of Canada, Prairie Fire, The Ampersand Review, The Seaboard Review, Room, and other journals. In 2023, Selena received the Norma Epstein Foundation Award for Creative Writing.
Selena serves as reviews editor at The New Quarterly and works across the literary landscape as a publicist with River Street, a social media associate with The Rights Factory, and social media manager for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. Smooth Jazz and Other Forms of Torture is her debut novel. You can find her on Instagram at @selenamercuriwriter.