Brigitte Marleau was born in Montreal. She is a writer, teacher, illustrator and pastellist. With a master's degree in psycho-education, she also teaches French. She has published some twenty children's books in the Au cœur des différences collection published by Boomerang. In 2009, she received an Arts Council grant to participate in the Festival du livre de Paris and in the Guadalajara International Book Fair, and in 2012, in the Brussels Book Fair.