Rene Cournoyer

Rene Cournoyer writes stories about light, breath, and the quiet spaces between them. His worlds blend the mystical and the human, where science becomes poetry, and silence learns how to speak.

From the laughter of Pokey-poke to the stillness of The Breath Universe, his work explores the same truth from many angles. That kindness, awareness, and curiosity are the oldest forms of intelligence in the universe.

I got my ideas for The Breath Universe while sitting beneath the Redwood trees in California. Their silence is different from any other. It isn’t empty, it listens. You can hear the air moving through their crowns like the memory of oceans, and in that sound, you remember how small you are, and how ancient everything else is.

Those trees taught me what the Breath really means: that life isn’t a story of beginnings and endings, but of continuations. May these pages carry a little of that stillness with them.

He lives surrounded by notebooks, unfinished sentences, and an endless fascination for what happens when we stop long enough to hear the world breathing back.