[2] Rather than teaching high school at the end of her undergraduate studies, as she had originally planned, she continued at Laval for her master's degree.

[3] Côté also won the prize for the best Master's dissertation and the Raymond-Blais medal awarded by the Association of Laval University alumni to a recent graduate for the merit of her activities.

[1] Literary critic Laurent Laplante remarked upon the alert style and steady pace, agreeing that the writing is not dazzling but correct and a promising discipline.

In 2008 Côté became a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on Ethics of the University of Montreal;[1][2] her studies are of the relationship between contemporary school and culture.

[1] On May 15, 2011, in a record-setting vote, Côté won the first twinned Aurora/Boréal Award for best fantasy or science fiction novel in French for La Tueuse de dragons, with an accompanying prize from SF Canada.