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, Herizons, Room Magazine, and other journals. She received the 2023 Norma Epstein Foundation Award for Creative Writing, was runner-up in The Ampersand Review’s 2026 Essay Contest, and was longlisted for Camel Journal‘s 2026 Gilmer Prize (fiction).
After earning her BA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, Selena studied Publishing at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she was awarded the 2025 Marsh Jeanneret Memorial Award. She is now an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph.
Selena is Reviews Editor at The New Quarterly and Havana Times, and a book publicist at River Street. She is represented by Kelvin Kong at K2 Literary. Find her on Instagram at @selenamercuriwriter.
Photo Credit: Travis Silverman Photography.
Selena Mercuri 