Caterina Edwards rewrote The Sicilian Wife at least 5 times. "I kept on adding layers." She likes to challenge herself by exploring different genres. Her last book was creative nonfiction, Finding Rosa. It won the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, as well as the Bressani prize. Several of her personal essays and her collection of short stories, Island of the Nightingales, also won major awards, while an earlier novel, a play and, a book of two novellas also received praise and critical attention.Caterina was born in England of an English father and a Venetian mother. She began telling herself stories at an early age and never stopped. Whatever the gegnre, Caterina explores the collision of multiple selves and cultures, private memory and public history, here and there.