Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier is originally from the North Shore region of Quebec province and lives in Montreal. She is a poet, a literacy facilitator, a cultural mediator, and an embroiderer. A feminist and socially engaged citizen, she is actively involved in projects that promote access to education at all ages and that aim to make poetry more democratic. She published two poetry books in French with La Peuplade, Brasser le varech (2017) and La patience du lichen (2021), short-listed for Montreal’s Great Book Prize and winner of CALQ’s 2021 Award for best work by a new or next generation artist in Montreal and Myriam-Caron Award of the North Shore Bookfair 2022. The first describes a personal grief story using Quebec’s North Shore botanical vocabulary, the latter explores the link between intimate and geographical territories on Quebec’s Lower North Shore. She is interested in voices that are usually silenced in our society. She currently explores the following subjects in writing: youth poetry and neurodiversity, the question of insularity and the links between writing and embroidery.