Nicole Brossard was born on November 27, 1943 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is a director and writer, known for Quelques féministes américaines (1978), Firewords, Part 3: Nicole Brossard (1986) and Thank God I'm a Lesbian (1992).
[on themes in her writing] They reflect a posture, an attitude, an architecture of meaning in language out of which comes images, fragments, semantic constructions useful for thinking, feeling and trembling. My own life story is ordinary. What is not is how I see what I see in everyday life, and how it triggers my mind, my imagination, sometimes my sorrow or an immense joy.