Ray Robertson is the author of eight novels, four collections of non-fiction, and a book of poetry. His work has been translated into several languages. In 2020 he published How to Die: A Book About Being Alive and The Old Man in the Mirror Isn’t Me: Last Call Haiku. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, he lives Toronto.
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli was born in Calabria, Italy and immigrated to Canada with her family at three years of age. She is a former award-winning teacher, and is a member and past president of the Sudbury Writers’ Guild. Rosanna is an alumna of the Humber School for Writers and a professional member of The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC), the Canadian Authors Association (CAA Toronto Branch), the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers (AICW), and the Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP). Her work has been published in seventeen anthologies and has read at conferences and literary festivals in Sudbury, Toronto, Peterborough, Montreal, Vancouver, New York City, and in Italy.
Rosanna’s novel La Brigantessa (Inanna Publications, 2018) won Gold for Historical Fiction in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book (IPPY) Awards, and was a Finalist for the 2019 Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Book Award and the 2019 Northern Lit Award. https://www.inanna.ca/index.php/catalog/la-brigantessa/
Rosanna is also published with Pajama Press (Pumpkin Orange, Pumpkin Round) and Harlequin UK (three books published, three forthcoming). Pigeon Soup & Other Stories will be released by Inanna Publications in 2021.
Ray Robertson è l’autore di otto romanzi, quattro collezioni di non fiction e un libro di poesia. Il suo lavoro è stato tradotto in diverse lingue. Nel 2020 ha pubblicato How to Die: Un libro sull’essere vivo e il vecchio nello specchio non sono io: ultima chiamata Haiku. Nato e cresciuto a Chatham, Ontario, vive Toronto.
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli nasce in Calabria, Italia ed è immigrata in Canada con la sua famiglia a tre anni. È un’ex insegnante premiata ed è un membro e passato presidente della Gilda degli scrittori di Sudbury. Rosanna è un’alumna della Humber School for Writers e membro professionista della The Writers’Union of Canada (TWUC), l’Associazione degli autori canadesi (CAA Toronto Branch), l’Associazione degli scrittori italiani-canadesi (AICW) e la Canadian Society di Autori, illustratori e artisti per bambini (CANSCAIP). Il suo lavoro è stato pubblicato in diciassette antologie e ha letto a conferenze e festival letterari a Sudbury, Toronto, Peterborough, Montreal, Vancouver, New York City e in Italia.
Il romanzo La Brigantessa di Rosanna (Inanna Publications, 2018) ha vinto l’oro per la finzione storica nei Premi Independent Publisher Book (IPPY), ed è stato finalista dell’Associazione degli Autori canadesi Fred Kerner Book Award 2019 e del 2019 Premio Northern Lit. https://www.inanna.ca/index.php/catalog/la-brigantessa/
Rosanna ha anche pubblicato con Pigiama Press (Pumpkin Orange, Pumpkin Round) e Harlecchino UK (tre libri pubblicati, tre in arrivo). Pigeon Soup & Other Stories verrà pubblicato da Inanna Publications nel 2021.=
Ray Robertson
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli