Life’s Weirder Than Fiction

M. D.Benoit was born in Montreal, Quebec (that’s in Canada, folks) but was raised in a small northern town called Mont-Laurier. She didn’t stay there for long, though, and lived in Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax, Nova Scotia where she obtained her Masters Degree in Psychology from Saint Mary’s University.Throughout her career, she was a housekeeper, a telephone operator, a military officer, and a Human Resources consultant. But writing had always been her first love and she gave it all up to make up stories. She has been writing full-time for over ten years. Metered Space is her first published novel, with the next one in the series, entitled Meter Made, coming out in November 2005. Her third in the series, Meter Destiny, will be out in mid-2008. Her SF Thriller, Synergy, was published in April 2008. Another novel, an SF story on cloning tentatively entitled Catalyst, will come out in 2009 from Zumaya.

In 2000, M. D. edited a children’s anthology, “The Friendship Anthology”, published by the Nepean Public Library, and was the editor of a Canadian Anthology, Looking In… Portraits of the Canadian Soul, a collection of stories, essays and poetry, accompanied by pictures taken by a series of Canadian photographers from across the country. She has also been involved in numerous additional editing projects such as Now we’re cooking! 43 Authors in the Kitchen.

M. D. Benoit discovered science fiction and mystery through her father’s bedtime stories, which were always full of gadgets, dark doorways, and disappearing people. She lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her husband and her cat (who is really an alien in disguise).