About

Sonia Di Placido is a poet, playwright, performer, writer and artist currently completing the online distance Creative Writing Optional-Residency MFA Program with the University of British Columbia. She graduated from the Ryerson University Theatre School (Toronto) in 1996.  By 1998, Sonia began working towards a career in public relations and marketing. In 2000, she narrowed her focus to publicity and promotions within the publishing industry, while engaged in writing poetry, short plays and non-fiction. In 2006, Sonia completed an Hons B.A. in Humanities at York University in Toronto, Ontario. She is a member of the Association of Italian Canadian Writers, an Associate Member of the League of Canadian Poets and an associate member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.  Sonia has published creative non-fiction, in anthologies, poetry and articles in literary journals and magazines. Her first book of poetry titled Exaltation in Cadmium Red is forthcoming, Autumn 2012 with Guernica Editions.

Let me make this perfectly clear: All I have ever cared about And all you should ever care about Is what happens when you lift your eyes from this page. Do not think for one minute it is the Poem that matters. Is is not the Poem that matters. You can shove the Poem. What matters is what is out there in the large dark and in the long light, Breathing. Gwendolyn MacEwen