 On the advice of her parents, she studied to become a secretary and then she took art studies at the Ecole Normale of the University of Quebec where she decided to become a French teacher.Dreier has written several books of poems and has received distinctions.She received the Paul Budry Prize in 1977, the prize of the town of Montpellier (France), the gold medal of the Lutèce Academy in 1978, the golden medal of the town of Paris in 1979, the classical prize for the integral part of her works (Canada 1982) and the prize of honor for foreign poets by the Copenhagen Faculty of literature.