Born in Montreal in 1978, Elsa Pépin obtained a Masters Degree in French literature from McGill University. A researcher for the programs Vous m’en lirez tant and La Librairie francophone on Radio-Canada, she is also a literary critic and author. She has written numerous articles for the daily newspaper La Presse, for Ici and Le Libraire, and for the revues Moebius and Zinc, as well as for the book Amour et libertinage, a collection of short stories by writers in their thirties that she prepared for the publishing house Les 400 coups in 2011. She is currently working on a novel.