Monday, 26 May 2014
ASL 2014: Tina Biello
Tina Biello is an actor and a writer. She studied Theatre at UBC. Her poetry
has appeared in chapbook anthologies edited by Patrick Lane, since
2008. Her chapbook, ‘Momenti’, was shortlisted for the Bressani Prize in
Vancouver, and was part of a multi-disciplinary art exhibition of
poetry and watercolour in Montreal and Vancouver. These poems have also
been composed into a CD of music called ‘Dolci Momenti’. Leaf Press has
published her first full length collection, Spring 2014, 'In the Bone
Cracks of the Walls'. Her second book of poetry will be published in
Fall 2015, by Guernica Press,‘ A Housecoat Remains’. She has written and
toured a children’s play about Autism, ‘The Indigo Kids’, and when
she’s not writing, she teaches performance mask work and Commedia
dell'Arte at various institutions and schools.