About the Author

Lise Tremblay Award-winning writer Lise Tremblay is one of Quebec's most prominent novelists. Her first novel, L'hiver de pluie, was published by XYZ Editeur in 1990 and won the Prix Decouverte du Salon du livre du Saguenay-Lac Saint-Jean and the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize. Following this promising debut, Tremblay continued to wow critics with her skillful craft, winning the Governor General's Award for Fiction with her third novel, Mile End. Gail Scott Gail Scott's fiction and criticism have appeared in several journals. She is the author of two novels: Main Brides (1993) and Heroine (1987); Spare Parts, a collection of short stories; and Spaces Like Stairs, a collection of essays. Most recently, she translated Lise Tremblay's Mile End (La danse juive, Lemeac, 1999). She lives in Montreal.