The Embalmer is Anne-Renée Caillé's first novel. She is writing her second book while she works at Queen's University. A regular contributor to Liberté magazine since 2012, she has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Anne-Renée divides her time between Kingston and Montreal.
Rhonda Mullins is a writer and translator. She received the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for Twenty-One Cardinals, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's Les héritiers de la mine. And the Birds Rained Down, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier’s Il pleuvait des oiseaux, was a CBC Canada Reads Selection. It was also shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, as were her translations of Élise Turcotte’s Guyana and Hervé Fischer’s The Decline of the Hollywood Empire. Rhonda currently lives in Montréal.