MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS (1939-2021) was the internationally revered author of more than twenty-five books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which she won four times, Blais was awarded the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, and several Guggenheim Fellowships. Marie-Claire Blais divided her time between Florida and Quebec.KATIA GRUBISIC is a Canadian writer, editor, and translator living in Montreal. Her work has appeared in the Malahat Review, Grain, and Prairie Fire, and she served as the editor-in-chief of Arc Poetry Magazine. Her collection of poems What if red ran out won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry. She has been nominated for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and a Governor General’s Literary Award for Brothers, her translation of David Clerson’s Frères.
