Quebec poet, painter and author Célyne Fortin has published eleven books of poetry since the publication of her first collection Femme Fragmentée by Éditions du Noroît in 1982. Her collection of short stories Summer Days was published in 2014 by Ekstasis Editions. In Wabakin or Four Windows Onto Snow, published in French by Les Heures bleues in 2013 and now translated by Donald Winkler, she reflects on the winter months spent in her home region of Quebec, Abitibi, with her older sister, Cécile. In 2014, the French edition won the Prix AQPF-ANEL, awarded jointly by the Association québécoise des professeurs de français and the Association nationale des éditeurs de livres.

Translated from the French: Wabakin, ou, Quatre fenêtres sur la neige : avec dix photos et treize dessins du l'auteure.