Born in 1964 in Québec City, Yves Meynard currently lives in Orléans, Ontario. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal. Since 1986, he has published over 50 SF & Fantasy short stories in both English and French, and 19 books in French. His first book in English, a fantasy novel titled The Book of Knights, came out in January 1998 from Tor Books. His second English-language book, Chrysanthe, came out in March 2012. A collection of short stories, Angels & Exiles, was published in 2015. His writing has netted him several awards, most notably the Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois in 1994.
Yves was fiction editor from 1994 to 2001 for the Québécois SF magazine Solaris; he has been an anthologist for several projects, including the anthology Tesseracts5, published by Tesseract Books.