Mireille Silcoff is a columnist with Canada's National Post. She writes for publications including The New York Times Magazine and The Walrus. She is the founding editor of Guilt & Pleasure Quarterly, a quarterly magazine of new Jewish writing and ideas. She has been a senior editor with the National Post, Saturday Night Magazine, and various other publications. She is also the founder of a string of Jewish discussion salons active in several American and Canadian cities.

Mireille is the recipient of several journalism awards, including National Magazine Awards. Mireille is the author of three books. Her first two are about drug and nightclub culture. She has been called "an ecstasy guru" on television in broad daylight. Her most recent book is Archetypes (McClelland & Stewart; the book is called Urban Animals in the US), a collection of her (now defunct) illustrated National Post column of the same name. Mireille lives in Montreal, where she is currently writing her second collection of short stories. Her first, CHEZ L'ARABE, will be published by the House of Anansi press in Fall 2014.