Domenico Capilongo teaches high school alternative education and karate. He has had work published in several literary magazines, including Descant, The New Quarterly, Dreamcatcher, and Geist. He won an Honourable Mention in the Toronto Star Poetry Contest 2004, was short-listed for both the Lichen Magazine "Tracking a Serial Poet" Contest 2006 and the gritLIT Poetry Contest 2009. His first book of poetry, I thought elvis was Italian, came out in 2008 from Wolsak & Wynn.