Marcello Di Cintio is the author of six books, including Driven:The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers; Walls: Travels Along the Barricades (winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize) and Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense (also a W. O. Mitchell Prize winner). His new book, Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers, will be released this fall. Di Cintio’s award-winning magazine writing has appeared in publications such as The International New York Times, The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, and Afar. He served as a writer-in-residence at the Calgary Public Library, the University of Calgary, and the Palestine Writing Workshop. He teaches nonfiction writing at the annual WordsWorth youth writing residency.
Website: marcellodicintio.com
Instagram/Threads: @marcello.di.cintio
Wordfest turns 30 this year and we’re throwing a lively bash to celebrate the Calgarians who helped build Wordfest. It’s our way of thanking writers, readers, and community builders for helping to spark our thriving literary scene. And what better way to showcase this city’s range of wordy goodness than inviting seven of our finest storytellers to share a seven-minute tale about the relationship between their art and their hometown, in its all its contradictions, complexities, and connections. Join us for The Way We… Calgary’d, featuring Ali Bryan, Marcello Di Cintio, Will Ferguson, Cheryl Foggo, Richard Harrison, Joshua Whitehead, and Teresa Wong, with a special performance by Tom Phillips.
In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations, the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation within Alberta District 6, and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
