 Of her work she has said, that from the beginning she has continually tried to use fiction as a way of creating discrepancies, breaks, and uncertainty in the monolithic set of beliefs that surround us, and that without these discrepancies nothing would shake the rigidity of fundamentalism.In 1992 and 1993 she was writer in residence at the University of Montréal.She has lectured in Québec, the United States, Europe and South America.