Chloé Delaume is an award-winning French novelist. Among the more than twenty texts she has published since 2000, her second novel, Le Cri du sablier, was awarded the¿Prix Décembre¿in 2001. Dawn M. Cornelio is a professor at the University of Guelph in Canada. Her work has appeared in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Women in French Studies, and elsewhere. ¿