Michaëlle Sergile is an artist and independent curator working mainly on archives including texts and works from the postcolonial period from 1950 to today. Her artistic work aims to understand and rewrite through weaving the history of Black communities, and more specifically of women, or communities living in diverse intersections. Often perceived as a medium of craftsmanship and categorized as feminine, the artist uses the lexicon of weaving to question the relationships of gender and race.

Between her poems, short stories, novels and children’s literature, Marie-Célie Agnant has built a substantial body of work that has been translated into several languages and is deeply anchored in memory and recollection. Falling at once under the sign of poetry and the violence of postcolonial societies, her writing underscores the fundamental condition she has set for herself: the refusal of spectatorship, complacency, and programmed forgetting. Finalist of the Desjardins Literary Prize (1995), the Governor General’s Literary Award (1997), in 2014 she received the SODEP Prix de Création en prose and, in 2017, the Alain Grandbois Prize for her book of poetry Femmes des terres brûlées.