Monique Deland

Monique Deland was born in Montreal and trained as a visual artist. She is the daughter of André Deland, (1926–1979, Geology Professor at Sir George Williams / Concordia University) who taught her the love of science according to her Discours de réception à l'Académie des lettres du Québec and Suzanne Lapointe (sister of Jean Lapointe, a Quebec actor). From 1978 to 1995, Deland taught visual arts at the high school level. From 1993 to 2002, she earned a masters and doctorate in literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She won the Prix Québec-Amérique in 1998 for her master's degree thesis Rivages, Pour une esthétique de l'ambivalence. From 1999 to 2007, she was a member of the editorial team for the poetry magazine Estuaire. She has also been a poetry critic for the literary magazines Trois, Estuaire, Moebius, and Les Écrits. She is now a regular poetry critic for Estuaire, since 2018. Deland is an elected member of the Académie des lettres du Québec, since 2014.

Source: • Géants dans l'île (1994) • L'intuition du rivage (2000) • Le nord est derrière moi (2004) • Miniatures, balles perdues et autres désordres (2008) • Géologie des corps surpeuplés (2011) • La nuit, tous les dieux sont noirs (2014) • J'ignore combien j'ai d'enfants (2018) • Noir de suie, Poèmes d'atelier (2023)