As a director and lyricist, she is considered one of Quebec’s leading authors. She has worked as a translator and as an interpreter with elders, the keepers of traditional knowledge, and wisely learned to listen to their words. She wrote her first collection Bâtons à message/Tshissinuashitakana (2009) with these nomadic nature enthusiasts in mind, and was awarded the Prix des lecteurs at the Marché de la poésie in Montréal in 2010 for her poem Dessine-moi l’arbre. In collaboration with José Acquelin, she published Nous sommes tous des sauvages (2011) followed by Un thé dans la toundra/Nipishapui nete mushuat (Finalist for the Governor General’s Award and Finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal) in 2013. She has also translated various works from Innu-aimun into French.