Béchard is also the author of White, a novel about neocolonialism in the Congo and in Canada (Foreword Indie Book of the Year Award, bronze winner); My Favorite Crime: Essays and Journalism from around the World; and A Song from Faraway, a novel that tells the story of a family's legacy in wars over two centuries and on three continents.

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Anita Felicelli writes, “The novel’s brilliant innovation is its adoption of a shattered form: its structure mirrors its theme of bodies and stories ruined by wars willingly fought... Tough of mind and tender of heart, its beauty is wholly entrancing.” Béchard was born to a French-Canadian father and an American mother.

In 2013 he participated in Carole Laganière's documentary film Absences, sharing his story of searching for information about his family history in Quebec after having grown up disconnected from that part of his heritage.

Photos from his series on Afghan women cyclists has been reprinted in dozens of magazines, exhibited in the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, and featured in a Patagonia ad campaign for activism.

His articles, fiction, and photos have been published in newspapers and magazines around world, including the LA Times, Salon, Reuters, The Guardian, Patagonia, The Paris Review, La Repubblica, The Walrus, Pacific Standard, Le Devoir, Vanity Fair Italia, The Herald Scotland, The Huffington Post, The Harvard Review, The National Post, and Foreign Policy Magazine.