Marie-Andrée Gill is a master​ of letters student at ​the University of Québec ​at ​Chicoutimi. ​Gill was born in the Ilnu community in​ ​Mashteuiatsh, ​and her writing​ ​blends kitsch and existentialism, ​​combining​ ​Quebecois and​ ​Ilnu identities. She has published two collections at La Peuplade,​ ​Béante​ ​(2012) and Frayer (2015), forthcoming in English translation from BookThug.