About

Gian Marco Visconti is an Arbëreshë and South Asian–Canadian writer, librarian, and urbanist, born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He received the Glass Buffalo English Poetry Prize in 2016 and the SAAG Writing Prize in 2019. He was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2018 and a finalist for the Alberta Magazine Award for Poetry in 2023.

Gian Marco writes mostly in English while weaving elements of his heritage languages (Italian, Gujarati, and Arabic) into his poetic work, taking inspiration from the aesthetics of collage art to combine disparate expressions and materials into new forms.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Library & Information Studies from the University of Alberta and a Master of Planning from the University of Calgary.

Gian Marco can be reached at gmarcovisconti@gmail.com.