Nicole Brossard has published more than thirty books. Recently translated into English are Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon, Intimate Journal and Mobility of Light. She has won the Governor General�s Award twice for her poetry and in 2006 she received the Canada Council�s Molson Prize for lifetime achievement. Her collection Notebook of Roses and Civilization was shortlisted for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize. She lives in Montreal.