Maude Deschênes-Pradet is a writer, lecturer in creative writing, and yoga
teacher. She has published two novels, La corbeille d’Alice
(finalist for the 2014 Senghor Prize for the first Francophone and
Francophile novel) and Hivernages (Horizons imaginaires 2019),
both published by XYZ. She obtained a doctorate in literature and creative
writing from the University of Sherbrooke for her thesis on invented
spaces, which was recently published by Lévesque éditeur (Habiter
l’imaginaire : pour une géocritique des lieux inventés, 2019).
This story was translated by Julia Jones. Julia Jones is a
Montréal-based emerging literary translator. She holds an MA in Translation
Studies from Concordia University. Her literary projects include a
co-translation of Mauve Motel, a series of epistolary exchanges
between Simon Dumas and Nicole Brossard, and her ongoing translation of Hivernages by Maude Deschênes-Pradet.
