Born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec in 1972, Roxanne Bouchard studied at the University of Montreal and then obtained a master's degree from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
[3][4][5] In 2013, Bouchard published En terrain miné, which covers her five-year exchange of letters with a soldier in Afghanistan, corporal Patrick Kègle.
[1][6] 5 balles dans la tête, published in 2017, contains the recollections of wartime experiences of 25 active or retired members of the Canadian Armed Forces, mostly those who participated in the War in Afghanistan.
In the first novel of the series, titled Nous étions le sel de la mer (2014), Moralès investigates a body washed up from the sea.
[10] Its sequel, La Mariée de corail, was published by Éditions Libre Expression [fr] in 2020;[11] in the novel, Moralès investigates the disappearance of a lobster boat captain.