Born and educated in Bordeaux, Florence Treadwell came to Canada at the age of 25, married, settled in Peterborough, Ontario, and started to write the year following the birth of her fourth child. Her poems and photographs have been published in The Canadian Forum, Descant, Event, Grain, Poetry Canada, Pottersfield Portfolio and Prairie Fire She returns to France every summer to photograph sand dunes and apocalyptic Atlantic landscapes. She teaches French at Trent University