Bull, Melissa: - Melissa Bull is a writer, editor and translator based in Montreal. Her writing has been featured in Event, Matrix, Lemon Hound, Broken Pencil, The Montreal Review of Books, Playboy and Maisonneuve. She has translated such authors as Kim Thuy, Évelyne de la Chenliére, Raymond Bock, Alexandre Soubliére and Maude Smith Gagnon for various publications, including Maisonneuve, where she is the editor of the Writing from Quebec column. She recently translated a collection of essays and articles by Nelly Arcan, entitled BURQA OF SKIN (Anvil, 2014). Melissa is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. RUE is her debut collection of poetry.