Oak Bluffs summer resident ELISA M. SPERANZA spent thirty-plus years in marketing and strategic communications before publishing her 2022 historical novel “The Italian Prisoner,” a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. A co-founder of the Washashores Writers Collective, Elisa serves on the New Orleans Writers Workshop board. She’s been a featured author at the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, the Louisiana Book Festival, the Salem (MA) LitFest, and Islanders Write. elisamariesperanza.com
