Nancy Louise Huston, OC, is a Canadian novelist and essayist, born on September 16, 1953. A longtime resident of France, she primarily writes in French and translates her own works into English.

Huston lived in Calgary until she was fifteen, after which her family moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, USA. She pursued her studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and spent a year in Paris. She arrived in Paris in 1973 and obtained a Master's Degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where she wrote a thesis on swear words under the supervision of Roland Barthes.

She has published numerous novels and essays, including Instruments des ténèbres (1996), which won the prix Goncourt des lycéens and the prix du livre Inter, and L'empreinte de l'ange (1998), which won the grand prix des lectrices de Elle.