Catherine Mavrikakis has published several novels including Le ciel de Bay City (2008), and L'annexe (2019), and several essays, amongst which are L'éternité en accéléré (2010) and Diamanda Galás, guerrière et gorgone (2014)--the latter soon to be published in English translation by Quattro Books. She has already won many important awards for her work, including the Grand prix du livre de Montréal (2008), the Prix des libraires du Québec (2009) et the Prix littéraire des collégiens (2012). Mavrikakis is professor of French at UdeM and lives Montréal.