[1] The daughter of a father whose parents were immigrants from Italy, she was born in Montreal, Quebec.

In 1993, she received first prize of the Grand Prix littéraire de Laval for Une lettre.

She received the Trofeo Mediterraneo 1998 from the Académie internationale des Micenei (Calabria).

In 2004, she received the Prix de l’Altéralité for Pays inconnu / Paese sconosciuto and the Prix international de poésie S. Domenichino (awarded for Italian poetry written outside Italy) for Il Domani.

[3] Carducci has worked as a consultant for CCTV and as a translator, columnist and editor for the Beijing Review.