Look and Listen

Biography

Tony Nesca was born in Torino, Italy in 1965 and moved to Canada at the age of three. He was raised in Winnipeg but relocated back to Italy several times until finally settling in Winnipeg in 1980. He taught himself how to play guitar and formed an original rock band playing the local bars for several years. At the age of twenty-seven he traded his guitar for a Commodore 64 and started writing seriously. He has published six chapbooks of stories and poems, five novels, two books of poetry and has been an active contributor to the underground lit scene for ten years, being published in innumerable magazines both online and in print. He currently resides in Winnipeg and shares a house with his wife, his teenage nephew and his mother.

Inspiration

Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, Micheal Turner, Alan Moore, Hunter S. Thomson, Aldous Huxley, Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, D.H. Lawrence, Mark Twain, Anais Nin, Evelyn Lau, Kurt Vonnegut, J.R.R Tolkien, Dylan Thomas, Rimbaud, Moupassant, Margaret Atwood, Celine, Chekov, the comic book/graphic novel Love and Rockets by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez