Michaël Trahan was born in 1984. He grew up in Acton Vale, Montérégie, before moving to Montreal in the early 2000s. He is a professor of literature at Laval University and now lives in Quebec City. At Le Quartanier Editions, he has published Vie nouvelle (2020), La raison des fleurs (2017) and Nœud coulant (2013).
He is also the author of an essay on the reception of Sade’s work, La postérité du scandale (Nota bene, 2017), and a doctoral thesis on the question of legibility in the contemporary French poetic field. He is the literary director of the journal Estuaire.
