Vickie Gendreau was born in Montreal in 1989. While working in Montreal strip clubs from October 2009 to June 2012, she was also active in the literary community, where she participated in events like the Off-Festival de poesie de Trois-Rivières. She was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2012, and passed away a year later. Her first novel, Testament, written after her diagnosis, was published in the fall of 2012. It was longlisted for the 2013 Prix litteraire France-Quebec, and the English edition was published by Book*hug in 2016. Her second novel, Drama Queens, was published posthumously in 2014.