Denise Roig

Denise Roig is the author of three collections of short stories: Brilliant (Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2014), Any Day Now (Signature Editions, 2004), and A Quiet Night and a Perfect End (Montreal: Nuage Editions, 1995), and the memoir Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School (Signature Editions, 2008). Denise’s first collection was translated in 2000 as Le Vrai Secret du bonheur (Montréal: Éditions de la Pleine Lune, 2000) and her fiction has been heard on CBC’s Between the Covers. As a journalist, Denise’s work has appeared in the Montreal Gazette and The National (Abu Dhabi). Denise is the co-editor, with her husband Raymond Beauchemin, of two anthologies of Quebec English literature: Future Tense and The Urban Wanderers Reader. Born in New York, raised in Los Angeles, and a longtime resident of Montreal, Denise moved to Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, in 2008. She now lives in Hamilton, Ontario.