Chantal Lunardi believes strongly in community and humanity, two themes she embeds in the core of her work, and which followed her through her divergent careers: mainly in the education and caritative worlds, and ultimately in the classroom and the community working with children and adults with diverse abilities. Her experience in schools, her love for children, and her encounter with the work of medieval mystic Marguerite Porete inspired her to write her first book of poetry, which explores concepts of culture, education, truth telling, and social health.

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Beyond writing, Chantal enjoys hiking, regenerative cultivation, and being with her family. She holds a BA and MA in Anthropology from Laval University, Québec, and an interrupted PhD in Multidisciplinary Studies (Anthropology, Education, Philosophy, and Computing) at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. This book might very well be the heart of the doctoral dissertation she couldn’t write at the time. A nomad, Chantal travels between British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.