John Calabro was born in Sicily and lived in France from 1955 to 1966, at which point he came to Canada. Bellecour , published in 2005 by Guernica Editions, is his first work of fiction and was named by the Globe and Mail First Fiction Reviewer as one of the top 5 First Fiction in 2005. Jim Bartley of the Globe and Mail called Bellecour , “… a small masterwork of erotic candour and psychological acuity.” The option to the rights to turn Bellecour into a film has been sold to Mossanen Productions. LyricalMyrical Press published his collection of short stories, Somewhere Else , in October 2006. His work appears in various anthologies.
John Calabro is one of the founders of the reading series, Toronto WordStage, and a partner in the publishing house, Quattro Books. He is presently finishing a novel called To Africa, from Sicily.
