To be published in the fall, 2008, The Other Sister, a novel -

Lola Lemire Tostevin is a bilingual Canadian writer who works mainly in English. Born into a French Canadian family in Timmins, Ontario, she studied Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. She taught creative writing at York University, Toronto and was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario from 2004 to 2005.

She is the author of three novels, six collections of poetry plus works of literary criticism. She has also translated the work of writers such as Anne Hébert, Nicole Brossard, Paule Thévenin, and Claude Beausoleil into English and Michael Ondaatje's Elimination Dance into French. Her novel Frog Moon was translated into French (Kaki) and her collection of poetry, 'sophie, was translated into Italian ('sofia, Edizioni Empirìa). In 2007, her poetry chapbook, Punctum, was published by Nomados Press. Her short fiction appeared in French in XYZ-La Revue de la Nouvelle (2007 spring issue). Her short fiction also appeared in the anthology, Closets of Time. Tostevin is contributing editor of OPEN LETTER, a Canadian journal of writing and theory. She guest-edited the 2007 summer edition of Open Letter themed on Mistaken Identity.

Tostevin has given many readings in Canada, United States, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, and Poland. She has twice been invited and given readings at Le Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2006, she gave several readings in Poland under the auspices of the Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, University of Silesia. Most recently, in the spring of 2007, Tostevin gave a series of talks and readings in Rome and Ferrara related to the publication of 'sofia.

Tostevin has lived in Northern Ontario, Montreal, Edmonton, Fort McMurray and Paris, France. She now resides in Toronto with her family.