Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba was born in 1987 in Montreal, the daughter of a language teacher and a medical translator. She studied at Laval University and graduated in 2010.

She then worked as a translator. In 2013, she left her job and the hustle and bustle of Montreal to live in a log cabin in the Kamouraska region, on the banks of the river of the same name, without electricity, running water, or cell service, surrounded by coyotes and bears. The first winter was one of solitude and a return to nature, but also of peace. Later, she became involved with a group of environmentalists fighting against an oil pipeline project[1], and moved in with a lover in a house built next to her cabin. They have a daughter.

She also became a municipal councillor for Saint-Bruno-de-Kamouraska in a 2016 by-election, was re-elected in 2017, and resigned in 2019. A few years later, she temporarily moved back closer to Montreal so that her daughter could attend school. She also devoted herself to writing, initially for activist purposes, to share her convictions about the need to protect nature through novels that were both committed and poetic.

★Rights sold: French, Italian and Spanish.
★In the final opus of her triptych, the author delivers a tour de force centering on community activism.

Riopelle, along with his brothers and sisters in arms, is spurred into action to protect the forest surrounding a centuries-old pine tree, whose roots plunge into the soil that runs along the proposed route of an oil pipeline.

Timely themes are in tune with current hot button issues like eco-activism, violent protests against the peaceful occupation of public lands, and leveraging science in the name of private interest.