Carolyn Marie Souaid is a Montreal-based writer, editor, and mixed media artist who has worked extensively to build bridges between linguistic and cultural communities in Quebec, including a decades-long involvement with the Inuit. Souaid is the author of nine poetry collections and the acclaimed novel Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik , set in the aftermath of colonization in Nunavik, where she lived and worked for three years in the 1980s. She has performed at literary events in Canada and abroad, her work garnering a top prize at the 2012 Berlin Zebra Poetry Film Festival and appearing on shortlists for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Her literary papers (1967?2022) are housed in the Rare Books and Special Collections of the McLennan Library of McGill University.