[3] Working with her husband Paul Gagné, she translated over seventy English language books into French, including the works of such authors as Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, and Naomi Klein.

[4] Saint-Martin attended the University of Waterloo for her undergraduate education where she graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in 1980 and received the Alumni Gold Medal.

[5] She graduated from Université Laval in with her doctorate in 1988 on Québecois women's literature, entitled Malaise et révolte des femmes dans la littérature québécoise depuis 1945.

[6] Saint-Martin taught literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM).

[7] As a specialist of women's studies and Quebec literature, she published several scholarly works on these subjects.