Born in North Queensland, Australia Brisbane with special focus on Music and Dramatic Arts (Australian
Music Examinations Board, University
of Queensland
After travel in Europe, she and her husband
David Fulton settle in Canada Toronto
1970-1971 presents her own weekly television programme
on Rogers Cable Television featuring prominent figures in politics and the arts;
publishes articles and stories in Chatelaine,
Canadian Forum, This Magazine, Room of One’s Own; The Immigrant Woman with Ana Alberro (Women in the Canadian Mosaic, Peter Martin Associates Ltd. Edited by
Gwen Matheson); writes and produces radio documentaries on CBC-FM, including the celebrated Music of Spain, a series of 18 hour-long programmes, presenting the
music within a social/historical perspective;
the 120 min. masterpiece Segovia
1972 With her husband documentary-filmmaker David
Fulton, sets up Montero-Fulton
Productions to produce documentary films on social and art subjects. Films include Years of Struggle, a retrospective look at the life and work of
Canadian artist Leonard Hutchinson, famous for his prints depicting the
Depression of the 30’s; The Horsemen, on
drawings of Canadian-Armenian artist
Hagop Khoubessarian, winner of the Prix de Paris 1973; Cry of the Gull, about contamination of the Great Lakes; Crisis in the Rain, on the effects of
acid rain, winner of the Gold Camera Award
American Film Festival 1982. Montero
also worked as consultant-interviewer on Dreams
and Nightmares (A-O Productions, California )
about Spain under Franco, a
film that won a number of international
awards in Florence , Moscow , Leipzig
As president of the Canadian Committee for a Democratic Spain organizes international
conferences Amnistia (1970) and Solidaridad (1974) in Toronto
to make known the demand for democracy developing in Spain
1972 Co-founder of The Centre for Spanish-Speaking Peoples, Toronto
1976 contracted by Bethune College, York University, Toronto, to organize
international congress Spain 1936-1976:
The Social and Culural Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
1977 Following the success of her oral history The Immigrants, Montero is engaged as Consultant
on Immigrant Women by the Multicultural Department of the Secretary of
State, Government of Canada.
1978 moves to Barcelona
CONTRATALLA sala d’art, Tarragona
Her cycle of prose poems Letters to Janez Somewhere in Ex-Yugoslavia provides the basis for
collaboration with painter Pere Salinas in an exhibition at Barcelona’s Galería
Eude (1995). The poems subsequently serve as narration for a choreography by
the Cristina Magnet Dance Company.
2003 Winner of NH Premio de Relato for Ménage à Trois, the first time this
prize is awarded for a short story in English.
2006-2007 Assistant Artistic Director, EntreCultures International Theatre
Festival, Tortosa , Spain
2006-2009 Vice-President,
2009-2011 President Associació
d’Investigació I Experimentació Teatral (AIET), Barcelona.
Montero’s literary work has been studied in
classes at both the high school and
university level. She has been invited to participate in university courses and
international conferences, such as Landscapes of Exile, Centre for Australian
Studies, University of Barcelona (2004); West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry,
Ireland (2006); La Guerra Civil Espanyola i la literatura arreu del mon, (El Juliols), summer courses University
of Barcelona (2006); Escriure es Creure, es Creure, University Extension Course, Faculty of
Philology, University of Barcelona (2007), Literatures in English; Ethnic,
Colonial and Cultural Encounters, University of Innsbruck, University
of Barcelona (2007); Myth, History and Memory, (2008) Food
for Thought (2010), Pacific Solutions (2011) Centre for
Australian Studies, University of Barcelona and Centre for Peace and Social
Justice, Southern Cross University, Australia.
Member: Writers’
Union of Canada, Sociedad General de
Autores de Espana SGAE.
