BERNARD MULAIRE is a French Canadian Métis, Winnipeg-born and educated artist, art historian and writer. His book Caricatures won the Association for Manitoba Archives' Manitoba Day Award while Flâneries et souvenances, a collection of short texts, was highlighted in the Montreal gay monthly magazine Fugues. As an artist he exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and at Gallery Moos in Toronto. He contributed to the Canadian Biographical Dictionary and to Allegmeines Künsterlexikon (Leipzig), as well as to major catalogues published by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. He has also published in the Université de Saint-Boniface's Cahiers franco-canadiens de l'Ouest and in Nuit Blanche literary magazine. He resides in Montreal.