Selena Mercuri

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, Room Magazine, Herizons, and other journals. Selena received the 2023 Norma Epstein Foundation Award for Creative Writing, as well as the 2025 Marsh Jeanneret Memorial Award. In addition to serving as reviews editor at The New Quarterly, Selena also works across the literary landscape in various other capacities. She is represented by K2 Literary.