The daughter of Lucille and Alphonse Comeau, she was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
She later received a master's degree in theatre studies from the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.
She later worked in the Centre provincial de ressources pédagogiques at the Université Sainte-Anne, where she prepared educational materials for Acadian students, for a number of years.
[1][2] She has lived most of her life in the village of Meteghan River which is known in French as La Butte.
In 1983, she published a novel L'été aux puits secs[1] which won the Prix France-Acadie [fr].