Marisa graduated from the University of Windsor, and taught for over twenty five years. Her short stories, articles, and book reviews have appeared in a variety of Canadian publications including, Canadian Author & Bookmark, The Mystery Review and The Dynamics of Cultural Exchange. Marisa’s work has appeared in a number of anthologies and she has twice been the recipient of the Okanagan Short Story Award. Surface Tension was her first novel. De Franceschi has completed a second and is working on a third. Her work includes:

- “Stories About Real People”, is a series of readings, stories to make everyone laugh, published in 1982 by Mardan Publishing.

- “Royal Blood”, a short story, Canadian Author & Bookmark, 1984.

- “The Providers” and “Royal Blood” were included in the anthology Pure Fiction, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, in 1986.

- “Peonies trying to survive”, is a short story, Ricordi: Things Remembered, published in Toronto by Guernica Editions, in 1989.

- “Surface Tension”, is her first novel, published in Toronto by Guernica Editions, in 1994. It is a story about an Italian immigrant family, who lives in America and the challenges that this family faces.

- “Things Remembered”, a short story, Investigating Women, published in Toronto by Simon & Pierre, in 1995.

- Book Reviews for “Canadian Author & Bookmark”, “The Mystery Review”, “The Windsor Star” and numerous newspaper and magazine articles for a variety of Canadian publications.

- Marisa De Franceschi was the editor of “Pillars of Lace: The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Women Writers”, in 1998. “Pillars of Lace” is an eclectic collection of the finest writing by Italian-Canadian women, from a variety of genres: poetry, short stories, film scripts, novels, personal memoirs and journalism. She also edited “The Many Faces of Woman”, a short story collection, published by River City Press, in 2001.

- “Family Matters”, De Franceschi’s heartbreaking recollections of childhood, a prose series, published in 2001 by Guernica Editions.