I’m a writer, reader, translator, educator, and content creator originally from Montreal, Canada. I’ve been based in the UK, Vancouver, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Cairo. I currently live in Paris, on a street that usually smells of brioche.

I love travelling, delicious food, books, scotch, Canadian spelling, and the Oxford comma.

On weekdays I work in communications for a video game company. On mornings and weekends I write novels.

You can find some of my publications below:

• Reviews and essays I wrote for The Millions:
  • A review of Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage
  • A review of Ian McEwan’s Nutshell
  • An essay on Diana Athill
  • An essay on Art Spiegelman
  • A review of Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth
  • “At Night, All Books Are Bright”: An essay about reading and nighttime
  • An essay about Middlemarch and walking in the English countryside
  • “Henry James and the Joys of Binge Reading”
  • An essay about re-organizing my personal library
• “The Man Who Made Space Cool Again”, my essay about space and Chris Hadfield’s book An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth in The Puritan.
• My interview with Anakana Schofield about her book Malarky, on the PRISM international website.
• My interview with Alberto Manguel on NineteenQuestions.
• My interview with Rawi Hage about his book Carnival on the PRISM international website.
• My essay about Saguenay in the Canadian literary magazine Prairie Fire (print only)

Please contact me: cafsimard [at] gmail [dot] com