Silvia Fiorita Smith is a freelance writer from Embrun, Ontario who is a lover and writer of poetry. She has published two books of poetry, Figs Beneath the Snow in 2021 and This Strange New Path in 2022. She won second prize for one of her poems in a contest sponsored by the Association of Italian Canadian Writers in 2008. Silvia has been invited to read from her works at coffeehouses in Montreal and Morrisburg, Ontario. She enjoys sharing her love for this literary genre with others and facilitated a poetry club for teens when she worked at a Montreal high school. She has just recently facilitated a poetry workshop for the winter session at the Russell, Ontario library. She is a retired teacher of ESL and is working on a third book of poetry. She is very happy to combine her two passions, teaching and poetry.