Writer, painter and schol­ar, Stéphane Martel­ly was born in Port-au-Prince and now lives in Mon­tre­al. Through a pro­found­ly trans­dis­ci­pli­nary approach, she con­fronts the­o­ry, crit­i­cal reflec­tion and art in her work. She has pub­lished poet­ry and chil­dren’s tales, and her pic­to­r­i­al works are show­cased in the dig­i­tal art book Folie passée à la chaux vive (Pub​lie​.net, 2010). Her most recent pub­li­ca­tions are La Maman qui s’absentait (Vents d’Ailleurs, 2011), Inven­taires (Trip­tyque, 2016) and L’en­fant gazelle (Remue-Ménage, 2018), recent­ly trans­lat­ed to Eng­lish under the title Lit­tle Girl Gazelle (Lin­da Lei­th Edi­tors, 2020). In 2018 – 2019, she was the Main Coor­di­na­tor for the Cen­tre of Oral His­to­ry and Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling and remains a Core Mem­ber of this impor­tant insti­tu­tion today. As Pro­fes­sor in cre­ative writ­ing and research-cre­ation at the Lit­er­a­ture depart­ment of Uni­ver­sité de Sher­brooke, her con­tin­u­ing inter­est remains the pos­si­bil­i­ty and lim­its of cre­ation and interpretation.