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 GeneralÕs Award twice for her poetry and in 2006 she received the Canada CouncilÕs Molson Prize for lifetime achievement. Her collection Notebook of Roses and Civilization was shortlisted for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize. She lives in Montreal.