Audrée Wilhelmy was born in 1985 in Cap Rouge, Quebec, and now lives in Montreal. She is the winner of France’s Sade Award and a finalist for the 2019 Prix du Roman d’Ecologie. She has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Prix France-Québec, and the Quebec Booksellers Award. The Body of the Beasts is her third novel and the first to be translated into English.