Yolande Villemaire

YOLANDE VILLEMAIRE is a poet and novelist living in Montreal. Her first novel and first poetry book were both published in 1974. Active in the literary scene as a poetry performer as well as a critic, she participated in feminist and postmodern writing movements and also lived in New York, India, Paris, and Amsterdam. D'ambre et d'ombre, an anthology of her poetry was issued in 2000. She published her seventh novel, Des petits fruits rouges in 2001. Her most recent book, La deferlante d'Amsterdam, a novel, is being issued in Montreal and Paris in 2003. She is the director of "hieroglyphe", a collection at XYZ publisher and has two books translated into English: Quartz and Mica (Guernica, 1988) and Amazon Angel (Guernica, 1993).