Yvan Bienvenue is a Montreal playwright, poet, translator, and publisher. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School’s playwriting section. Bienvenue’s plays include Lettre d’amour pour une amante inavouée, In Vitro, Règlement de contes (translated by Shelley Tepperman as Settling of Accounts,) Dits et Inédits (which received the Governor General’s Literary Award for French-language drama in 1997,) and La vie continue (which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award in 2008). Bienvenue is one of the co-founders of the theatre company Urbi et Orbi, and is also a founding member of Dramaturges Éditeurs, a publishing house specializing in drama.