Myriam Lacroix was born in Montreal to a Quebecois mother and a Moroccan father. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from Syracuse University, where she was editor in chief of Salt Hill and received the New York Public Humanities Fellowship for creating Out-Front, an LGBTQ+ writing group whose goal was to expand the possibilities of queer writing. She currently lives in Vancouver.
Cinematic... sharply evoked * Daily Mail * What an audacious, breathtaking and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and deeply funny book is that everything exists to serve the compassionate heart at its core. Myriam Lacroix's work is a cause for celebration -- George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo Lacroix has written a beautifully brilliant, hilariously sad, stunner of a debut that never forgets about the heart -- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars Hilarious, heart-rending, grotesque, delightful, utterly brilliant -- Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under How It Works Out is madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good -- Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love