Selena Mercuri is a Toronto-based writer and publishing professional of Cuban and Italian background whose work appears in The Fiddlehead, The Literary Review of Canada, Prairie Fire, The Ampersand Review, The Seaboard Review, Room, and other journals. She received the 2023 Norma Epstein Foundation Award for Creative Writing.

She earned her BA in Political Science from the University of Toronto and later studied Publishing at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she was awarded the Marsh Jeanneret Award. She is now an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph.

Selena serves as Reviews Editor at The New Quarterly and works across the literary landscape as a Publicist with River Street, a Social Media Associate with The Rights Factory, and Social Media Manager for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. She is represented by Kelvin Kong at K2 Literary, and Smooth Jazz and Other Forms of Torture is her debut novel. Find her on Instagram at @selenamercuriwriter