Career
She lives in Outremont, a suburb of Montreal, Quebec. Brossard wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la saison. The collection L"Echo bouge beau marked a break in the evolution of her poetry that included an open and active participation in numerous cultural events (such as poetry recitals).
In 1975, she participated in a meeting of writers on women, a point marking both a more activist role in the feminist struggle and writing a poetry that becomes more personal in tone and subjectivity.
There are two poles in her writing, both aesthetic and political: on the one hand its modernism and avant-gardism. And on the other a sensual and activist writing that shows a commitment to a feminist consciousness.
Brossard founded a feminist newspaper, Les têtes de pioches, and wrote a play Le nef des sorcières (first performed in 1976). In 1982, she founded a publishing house: L"Intégrale éditrice.
The Nicole Brossard archives are located in downtown Montreal at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.