M.D. Benoit was born in Montreal, Quebec (that's in Canada, folks) but was raised in a small northern town called Mont-Laurier. She didn't stay there for long, though, and lived in Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax, Nova Scotia where she obtained her Masters Degree in Psychology from Saint Mary's University.

Throughout her career, she was a housekeeper, a telephone operator, a military officer, an a Human Resources consultant. But writing had always been her first love and she gave it all up to make up stories. She has been writing full-time for almost ten years. Metered Space is her first published novel, with the next one in the series, entitled Meter Made, out since November 2005. Another novel, an SF story on genetic warfare tentatively entitled Diseases and Sins, will come out in 2006, from Zumaya Publications.

In 2000, M.D. edited a children's anthology, The Friendship Anthology, published by the Nepean Public Library, and was the editor of a Canadian Anthology, Looking In: Portraits of the Canadian Soul, a collection of stories, essays and poetry, accompanied by pictures taken by a series of Canadian photographers from across the country. She has also been involved in numerous additional editing projects such as Now we're cooking! 43 Authors in the Kitchen.

M. D. Benoit discovered science fiction and mystery through her father's bedtime stories, which were always full of gadgets, dark doorways, and disappearing people. She lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her husband and her cat (who is really an alien in disguise).

She has just finished her fifth manuscript, the third in the Jack Meter Case Files.

Relevant Links
M.D. Benoit Bibliography
M.D. Benoit's Website

Dom's Reviews
Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel (f) - 16th March 2007
Joshua Palmatier's The Cracked Throne (f) - 26th February 2007
Jo Beverly, Mary Jo Putney, Karen Harbaugh & Babara Samuel's Dragon Lovers (f) - 29th January 2007
Neil Gaiman's American Gods (f) - 9th January 2007
Lois Lowry's The Giver (f/ya) - 2nd January 2007
Mary Doria Russell's Children of God (sf) - 29th September 2006
C.S. Friedman's In Conquest Born (sf) - 25th September 2006
Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow (sf) - 9th August 2006
Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys (f) - 6th June 2006
Christopher Moore's A Dirty Job (sf) - 24th May 2006
Robert Charles Wilson's Spin (sf) - 10th May 2006
John Scalzi's Old Man's War (sf) - 9th May 2006
Holly Phillips's In the Palace of Repose (ss) - 21st March 2006
Rupert Thomson's Divided Kingdom (sf) - 20th March 2006
Jason Brannon, Eric S. Brown & John Grover's Space Stations and Graveyards (h/sf/ss) - 18th March 2006