Vincenzo Di NicolaVincenzo Di Nicola is an interdisciplinary scholar who was born in Abruzzo, Italy and lives in Montreal, Canada where he practices as a psychiatric physician, philosopher, and poet and teaches at the University of Montreal. In the sphere of the arts,Di Nicola has been invited to numerous arts and cultural festivals and artistic residencies, spanning from Symposium '73 at York University in Toronto, Canada (1973) to the Cascais International Summer Course in Cascais, Portugal (2014) and recently, the Alfred Summer Arts Festival at Alfred University in Alfred, NY, USA (2022). Di Nicola's literary work has appeared in journals such as Queen's Quarterly and Poiesis and in his volume, The Unsecured Present: 3-Day Novels & Pomes 4 Pilgrims (2013). His professional texts include A Stranger in the Family (1997), Letters to a Young Therapist (2011, awarded the Prix Camille-Laurin), and Psychiatry in Crisis (with Drozdstoj Stoyanov, 2021). Read More Read Less