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, <em<Béante (2012) and Frayer (2015), forthcoming in English translation from BookThug.