Speranza

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Name:	speranza, User:Speranza
Alias(es):	cesperanza, Cesca, Ces, Francesca
Type:	fanwriter, vidder, moderator
Fandoms:	Stargate Atlantis, due South, The Sentinel, The West Wing, The Dead Zone, MAS*H, QAF UK
Communities:	sga_flashfic, sga_noticeboard
Other:
URL:	Speranza's Fiction, Cesperanza on blip.tv, Cesperanza at BamVideoVault
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A prolific writer in multiple fandoms, Speranza has spent the last three years writing fic and making vids in the Stargate Atlantis fandom. She migrated to SGA from dS in 2005, with a number of other ex-Sentinel dS writers.

She mods the SGA flashfiction LiveJournal community [1], and the SGA noticeboard LJ community [2].

She currently serves as the archivist of the Due South Archive [3], and is also the moderator of the dS mailing lists DSX and DIEF. She was a moderator of LJ communities DSReporter and DSNoticeboard, modded the dS flashfiction community from its inception until 2007, and founded the community DSFlashback.

In addition to her community-infrastructure work in her current and past fandoms, she has also run several multifandom writing challenges, most notably the Canadian Shack Challenge, the Inappropriate Elf Challenge, and the Tax Shelters Challenge.

Francesca / Speranza / Cesca / Cesperanza

Speranza first gained fannish fame in The Sentinel fandom under the name Francesca. When she first entered Due South, she wrote under a new name, Speranza, and made no reference to her Sentinel stories.

zvi says, though she can't provide links to said confrontation and was never in the fandom herself: "Although confronted with the similarity of her work as Francesca to her work as Speranza, she did not initially admit to being the same person."

Speranza's livejournal user name is Cesperanza, and she also goes by the nicknames "Ces" and "Cesca".

All these aliases account for the otherwise perplexing file structure of her website, Fanfiction by Speranza.