Monique Proulx is one of Quebec’s most popular authors. A novelist, story writer and screenwriter, she has published five previous works of fiction, including The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle, which was a finalist for the 2002 Governor General’s Award for fiction (French language) and a selection for the 2004 CBC Canada Reads competition. Her newest book, Wildlives, was nominated for a 2009 Governor Generals’ Literary Award for Translation and the Quebec Writers Federation Translation Prize. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Monique Proulx appears courtesy of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal, Quebec.