Huguette Gaulin was born in Montréal on July 7, 1944. Her poems have appeared in the les herbes Rouges magazine and in La Barre du Jour (1971). Lecture en velocipède was published by Éditions du Jour, in the collection Les poètes du Jour; (1972), before being taken over by Les Herbes Rouges in 1983. Huguette Gaulin died in Montreal on June 6, 1972.