Yves Meynard

Born in 1964 in Québec City, Yves Meynard currently lives in Longueuil, on the south shore of Montréal. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal. Since 1986, he has published over 40 science fiction and fantasy short stories in both English and French, and 13 books in French. His first book in English, a Fantasy novel titled The Book of Knights, came out in January 1998 from Tor Books. His writing has netted him several awards, most notably the Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois in 1994.

Yves is a collaborator of the Québécois SF magazine Solaris; he has been an anthologist for several projects, most recently the anthology Tesseracts 5, published by Tesseract Books. He is one of the founding members of SF Canada. A Macintosh enthusiast from the instant he laid eyes on the machine, he has written several applications for the Mac and is developing more.