About the Author

Since 2009, MARIE-JOËLLE PARENT's articles, interviews, reports and photos have appeared in many publications and on different media (Sun Media, QMI Agency, Le Journal de Montréal, The Huffington Post, La Presse, CBC/Radio-Canada, etc.) She hosts the segment "Vie américaine" ("American Life") on CBC/Radio-Canada Gravel le matin program, and she maintains a level of activity on social media that rivals that of anyone in New York City, where she has lived for the last seven years.

She is well loved by the public, with 23 900 followers on Twitter and 17 100 on Instagram. Her Instagram account, which compiles over 10 000 photos of New York, was named among the "top 10 accounts to follow" by French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur.