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Suzanne Desrochers is from Lafontaine, a French-Canadian village on the shores of Georgian Bay in
Ontario. Her first novel, about a Fille du roi of seventeenth-century New France, has been accepted for
fall 2010 publication by Penguin Canada.  In 2007, she completed an MA at York University in Creative
Writing and History. In 2006, she participated in the Humber School for Writers summer workshop in
Toronto and has since remained involved with the community of writers she met there.

Her writing has previously been published in Tokyo and NOW Magazine in Toronto.  She was an
editor for the society section of the online  journal le Panoptique. She lived for three years in Saitama,
Japan and for a semester in Paris on a graduate exchange at the Sorbonne. In fall 2009, she will begin
research towards a History PhD at King's College London, UK.  She currently resides in Toronto with her
husband, their son and cat.