Renée Belliveau is a Canadian writer and archivist from New Brunswick.
Biography Renée Belliveau is from Shediac, New Brunswick, and describes herself as a "proud acadienne". She graduated from Mount Allison University with a Bachelor of Arts, followed by the University of Waterloo with a Master of Arts, and finally the University of Toronto with a Master of Information. She resides in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where she is employed as an archivist. Her 2012 French-language memoir Les étoiles à l'aube recounts her father's fight with cancer.
Belliveau draws inspiration for her writing from her archival work. Her first novel was The Sound of Fire (2021), a work of historical fiction set in New Brunswick which recalls a devastating fire at Mount Allison University in 1941. The novel was named a book of the year for 2021 by Quill & Quire, and was shortlisted for the ReLit Novel Award. Her next novel, A Sense of Things Beyond (2025), is set in Nova Scotia in 1922 and follows the story of a couple rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of the First World War. The novel was inspired by real people; a military nurse who served on the front lines, and a man who was imprisoned in a German internment camp. The novel was shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction in March 2026.
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