DARLENE MADOTT is a Toronto lawyer and writer. In 2002, she won the Paolucci Prize of the Italian-American Writer's Association for a short story later anthologized in Italian-Canadian Voices (Mosaic Press, 2006). Her publications include Joy, Joy, Why Do I Sing? (Women's Press, 2004) and Making Olives and Other Family Secrets (Longbridge Books, 2008).