Luciana Erregue-Sacchi

Luciana Erregue-Sacchi is an award-winning publisher (Laberinto Press), art historian, translator, author (Of Mothers and Madonna, Polyglot 2023) and cultural worker. Luciana has presented at LitFest, Edmonton Poetry Fest, and Banff Centre. She coordinated the WGA Horizons Writers Circle. She has presented at the University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan University. Her work and translations have appeared in academic publications, Polyglot Magazine, AGNI, and others and she has been featured on CBC Edmonton, Radio Canada, Quill and Quire, Literary Review of Canada, Westword, and Edmonton Journal. She is an activist for freedom to read and an advocate for hyphened Canadian literature.

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l am the designated cebadora, a five-year-old, making sure the water spills in the centre of the mate gourd, filled three quarters with yerba, and one quarter with sugar, the mate plant sticks floating in the cold water.

– Pen Portraits With Mate and Asado, Beyond the Food Court