Therapy, A Black Comedy: A Play in 13 scenes. Guernica Editions, 1996. Foreplay and My Italian Wife: Two Plays. Guernica Editions, 2012. Poetry The Dance, The Cage and The Horse. D Press, 1976. A Queen Is Holding a Mummified Cat. Guernica Editions, 1982. A Bride in Three Acts. Guernica Editions, 1983. The O Canada Poems. Brandon University, 1986. A Season in Beware. Black Moss Press, 1989. Stages: Selected Poems. Guernica Editions, 1998. Office Politics. Guernica Editions, 1999. Welcome to Hard Times. Ekstasis Press, 2023 Books in Translation (French) Les Rites de l’Infertilite [translated by Jocelyne Doray]. Balzac-Le Griot, 1999. Là-bas, en Italie [translated by Claude Bèland]. Les Editions Triptyque, 2015. Via Roma [translated by Claude Bèland]. Les Editions Triptyque, 2018. Books in Translation (Italian) Riti di Infertilita [translated by Silvana Mangione]. Iannone Editions, 2002. Ritorno in Italia [translated by Laura Ferri]. Iannone Editions, 2012. Critical Appraisals (Published) Mary Melfi, Essays on her Works, edited by William Anselmi, Guernica Editions, 2007. Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return, Analysing Cultural Translation in Diasporic Writing, by Michaela Balda, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2019. PhDs and MA Theses on Melfi’s Work Licia Canton, “Six Italian-Canadian Novelists: Mary Melfi, Antonio D'Alfonso, Marisa De Francchi, F.G. Paci, Catherina Edwards.” University of Montreal, 1997 Maria Dell’ Anna, “I due mondi di Mary Melfi,” University of Lecce, Italy, 1998-1999. Lise Hogan, “Poetics as Displaced Praxis: Perspectives of Irony in the Poetry of Mary Melfi.” University of Alberta, 2004. Nadia Santoro, “Narrzioni migranti di (dis)appartenenza. ” University of Calabria, 2014. Tiziana Nannavecchia, “Translating Italian-Canadian Migrant Writing to Italian: a Discourse Around the Return to the Motherland/Tongue,” University of Ottawa, 2016. Interviews (Abridged) Accenti. April 2020, interviewed by Liana Cusmano Italian Canadiana. 2019, Vol. 33, interviewed by John Lewis. Panaram Italia, Liz Allemang, Panoram Italia June/July 2015 References External links Italy Revisited 1951 births Living people Canadian women dramatists and playwrights Canadian women novelists Canadian women poets Concordia University alumni Canadian people of Italian descent McGill University School of Information Studies alumni 20th-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers