Poet, novelist, essayist, translator, Antonio D'Alfonso has published more than 60 books and has made four feature films. For his writings, he won the Trillium Award, the Bressani Award, and the New York Independent Film Award. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and an Honorary Doctorate from Athabasca University. He lives in Montreal, QC.

"For more than thirty years, Antonio D’Alfonso has been producing an original and multidimensional oeuvre that includes autobiography, politics, the quotidian, myth, tragedy and humour. Which explains its baroque character ... this mixture of geographies is what creates this poet who stands in the middle of people and things and speaks a singular language comprised of bumps and leaps and a syncopated syntax. The comical pesters the dramatic non-stop as if to bend the human condition under the effort of a lived spirituality. in spite of these trials and tribulations, the poet does not forget that to be human means he is a lyrical clown and a dangerous thinker." -- Paul Bélanger, Le Bulletin des Éditions du Noroît

"The poeticality of Antonio D’Alfonso’s texts appears in the figure of the man of honesty who questions without end his place in the City and the commerce he entertains with his fellow citizens the admission of a persistent passion that turns hearts upside down a stubborn quest for significance a philosopher who puts on the mask of the poet in order to better grasp the ambiguities of our world." -- Hughes Corriveau, Le Devoir