The Fifth: A Love(s) Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781773860534)

Monica Meneghetti's first book, What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging (Dagger Editions, 2017) was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and tied as the Bi Book Award winner. The book speaks to an array of open-minded readers, from foodies to relationship anarchists. Her translation from Italian, The Call of the Ice: Climbing 8000-meter Peaks in Winter (Mountaineers Books) was a Banff Mountain Book Award finalist. Her essay about being a queer child of Italian immigrants is found in The Globe and Mail. Her poetry, fiction and nonfiction appear in print, online, in musical scores, and on stage. Meneghetti teaches writing, and offers manuscript development services, with a focus on supporting marginalized voices. Ethically non-monogamous, she lives with two of her three long-term partners of diverse races, sexual orientations, and gender identities. Born in Canada in the region of Treaty 7 (Calgary), she gratefully acknowledges being an unsettled white settler, living on unceded traditional Coast Salish territories (Vancouver). With a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Sherbrooke, MP Boisvert is interested in the representation of polyamory in Quebec literature and issues of sexual diversity. MP Boisvert was Executive Director of the Quebec LGBT Council (2015-2020) and consultant for various Quebec and Canadian ministries on issues of sexual and gender diversity. She is the co-founder of Fière la fête !, Sherbrooke's Pride (QC). Her contributions to Zodiaque (La Mèche, 2019), QuébeQueer (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2020), the academic journals Cavale, Le Pied and Caractère, as well as columns and articles on the blog "Littéraires après tout" and on the Fugues website, testify to a lively, daring and unique writing. Her first novel, Au 5e, published by éditions La Mèche in 2017, deals with the intimacy of a love experienced between five roommates.