Alexis

Lachaîne

Alexis Lachaîne is a bilingual Franco-Ontarian writer and historian with a PhD from York University. He has published short fiction in The Dalhousie Review and Grain. Born in New Brunswick, and raised in Kingston, Ontario, he currently lives in Toronto with his wife and two daughters.

Writers & Books

Award History

2025 - Finalist

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

for Three New France Suicides

Jury Citation

“With a period-specific voice that is by turns contemplative and elegiac, Alexis Lachaîne evokes the insuperable weight of history bearing down on existence. Despite clear moral reckoning of the historical past, ‘Three New France Suicides’ does not operate in a way that could be read as sloganeering or heavy-handed. This is a story of such inspired restraint that it needn’t even articulate how three lives find escape from hardship, such is the depth of their abjection.”—2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award short fiction jury (Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Baharan Baniahmadi, and Shashi Bhat)