Canadian
Myriam Lacroix is a Canadian writer born in Montreal to a Québécois mother and a Moroccan father. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from Syracuse University, where she served as editor-in-chief of the literary journal Salt Hill and received a New York Public Humanities Fellowship to found Out-Front, an LGBTQ+ writing group dedicated to expanding the possibilities of queer writing. She now lives in Vancouver. Her debut novel, How It Works Out (2024), reimagines a queer relationship through a cascading series of increasingly dark and absurd hypotheticals, drawing blurbs from George Saunders, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. The book was shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for speculative fiction. Lacroix's fiction is known for its formal audacity and its unflinching, often comic treatment of queerness, mental illness, and the fantasies people build around love.