To read Danielle Fournier is to plunge into the centre of a woman's heart and body - a heart that continues to beat, to search and to hope spurred on by a sensual, desirable - and desiring - body. Not only physical and emotional, Fournier's pursuits are also geographical and linguistic as she travels across continents and languages encountering bleak landscapes brightened by desire and feminine kinship. Despite the journey's internal ruptures and emotional turmoil, we reach joy and the conclusion that We come from the same light.

Danielle Fournier has published more than a dozen books and contributed to numerous reviews and magazines in Quebec and abroad. A full-time writer and editor of Editions de l'Hexagone, she has received many distinctions, including the 2011 Governor General's Award.