Lys Granier is a Montréal-based writer and urban geographer with an M.Sc in Urban Studies whose nonfiction and fiction works explore how cities express moral ideals through their design, policies and behaviours. Her urban essays examine the sensory and ethical life of urban spaces—how fences, benches, noise bylaws, and gestures of care reveal competing visions of trust and control. Her personal essays explore themes of botanical memory and childhood trauma.

Granier’s writing combines lyrical observation with moral philosophy and a critical lens. She is currently developing a collection of essays that situates Montréal as both subject and lens: a city that makes its ethics visible in every texture, rhythm, and light.

Her nonfiction work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Common, Passages North, PRISM international, The Ex-Puritan and About Place Journal. Her fiction appears in Hobart and Ahoy Literary.

She lives in the Village with her three cats, her human husband and alongside a family of skunks in her garden.

She can be found on Instagram @montrealys and by email at lysgranier@gmail.com.