The daughter of Italian immigrants, Elvira grew up in Montreal in the crosscurrents of three cultures during the turbulence of Quebec’s cultural revolution. After earning a BA in English from Sir Georg Willian University, she worked at many jobs, from secretary to child care worker in a prison for girls to editor of publications for national business association before heading to Toronto in the early 1980s. She eventually landed in the Toronto Star’s newsroom, and stayed put for next twenty-two years. She has since published a memoir about the Montreal years, completed an as-yet-unpublished thriller, The Fury, and is at work on a sequel, a mystery entitled Blood Ties, set in Itay.
