Véronique Sylvain [photo credit: Richard Tardif] lives in Ottawa, where she holds the position of promotion and communications agent with Éditions David. Her poems have been published in À ciel ouvert, Ancrages, Femmes de parole, Zinc, and in the anthologies Poèmes de la résistance (Prise de parole, 2019) and Projet TERRE (David, 2021). Her first collection, Premier quart (Prise de parole, 2019), won her the Prix de poésie Trillium, the Ottawa Book Prize, in 2020, the Prix Champlain, and the Prix littéraire émergence AAOF 2021. A proud Franco-Ontarian with a passion for words, music, nature, and travel, Véronique also offers writing workshops for those aged 8 to 98. Her upcoming collection, En terrain miné, appears in September 2024.