Marc Plourde established himself both as a poet and as a translator at a young age; poems he wrote before he was twenty were included in The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse in 1975. He is the author of three collections of poetry — Touchings, The White Magnet, and Borrowed Days — and a short story collection, The Spark Plug Thief. Plourde has translated works by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Gaston Miron, and Gilbert Langevin and taught at Dawson College. He lives in Montréal, Québec.