Caroline Lavoie is a French-Canadian writer of YA speculative fiction. She grew up in Quebec and flew west at the age of twenty with one lucky feather and three words of English in her backpack. She now spends her days on the homestead, growing food and improbable tales from seed.

In recent years, her short stories have appeared in Cloud Lake Literary, Black Cat Books’ original anthology Black Cat, Haunted Words Press Issue Five: Wicked Woodlands, and Graveside Press’ collection Tales from the Graveside (forthcoming – Spring 2026). She was also the lead editor for Black Cat Books’ anthology The Kindread Coast, released in 2025.

Her debut novel, Devil by the Tail, was a finalist in CANSCAIP’s 2022 Writing for Children Competition and a 2025 Page Turner Awards Best Genre winner.

Caroline is a member of the Federation of BC Writers. She lives in northern British Columbia on the land of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation.