Over the course of the winter 2010 edition of S.W.A.T., we're posting brief interviews with each of our participating Writers-in-Residence. We want to give all of you a chance to get to know the amazing people who work so hard to make the S.W.A.T. program a success!
Today we present the fifth of our twelve writer interviews - with the exceptional Elisabeth de Mariaffi!
Elisabeth’s poetry and fiction appear regularly in Canadian magazines. Her chapbook, Letter on St. Valentine’s Day, was published in 2009 by The Emergency Response Unit; in 2007, she won the Lina Chartrand Award for Poetry from CV2. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph-Humber and she is one-half of the brand-spanking-new Toronto Poetry Vendors, a small press set to sell poetry broadsides from vending machines. Elisabeth is currently fine-tuning a poetry manuscript and working away at a book of short stories. This spring she is slated to produce a poem-film collaboration with the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). Elisabeth de Mariaffi is the S.W.A.T. Writer-in-Residence for Madonna.
Our Q & A with Elisabeth de Mariaffi… after the jump!
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Over the course of the winter 2010 edition of S.W.A.T., we're posting brief interviews with each of our participating