Nino Ricci was born in Leamington, Ontario, in 1959. His first novel, Lives of the Saints (1990), won the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the SmithBooks/Books in Canda First Novel Award, and the F.G. Bressani Prize. The second novel in the trilogy was the acclaimed In a Glass House (193). Ricci holds a BA from York University and an MA from Concordia University and is a past president of PEN Canada. He lives in Toronto.
