Domenica Martinello is a writer from Montreal, Quebec and the author of Good Want (2024) and All Day I Dream about Sirens (2019). She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Poetry.
Domenica was a finalist for the 2017 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and served as a judge for the award in 2021. In 2023 she won the Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize for her sequence, “Good Want”.
For her prose writing, Domenica won the carte blanche 3Macs Prize for a genre-bending work of literary criticism on Elena Ferrante, and has published reviews and criticism in The Globe & Mail, The Montreal Review of Books, Canadian Notes & Queries, and elsewhere.
She has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2019 and new poems have been published or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, CV2, Arc Poetry, The South Carolina Review, Salt Hill Journal, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere.
Domenica’s work has been supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Contact: [email protected]
Domenica was a finalist for the 2017 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and served as a judge for the award in 2021. In 2023 she won the Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize for her sequence, “Good Want”.
For her prose writing, Domenica won the carte blanche 3Macs Prize for a genre-bending work of literary criticism on Elena Ferrante, and has published reviews and criticism in The Globe & Mail, The Montreal Review of Books, Canadian Notes & Queries, and elsewhere.
She has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2019 and new poems have been published or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, CV2, Arc Poetry, The South Carolina Review, Salt Hill Journal, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere.
Domenica’s work has been supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Contact: [email protected]