[citation needed] In 1971, she obtained a bachelor's degree in theater studies from Université du Québec à Montréal.
She started her professional career as a director, with the Théâtre sans fil and the Grand Circus Ordinaire, an occasional screenwriter for Radio-Québec, a waitress and a translator.
She was also a literary critic and collaborates notably at Mainmise , Hobo-Quebec, La Barre du jour, Cul-Q, Witches (Paris), Beatitude (California), Sisters (Los Angeles), Ironie Point (Germany), Stars Screwers (France), and many others.
[1] The publishing of her first book, Filles-commandos bandées, in 1976. made her one of the major authors in the Quebec poetry movement of the 1980s, marked by the beat generation, that developed around Red Herbs.
The description of marginality has a major role in it: homosexuals, drug addicts, prostitutes, transsexuals, or transvestites are recurrent characters.