Pauline Hillier has been writing since she was a teenager. After studying in the Bordeaux area, she published her first novel, À vivre couché, in 2014 with Onlit Editions. A member of the international movement FEMEN until 2018, she was imprisoned in 2013 in Tunisia following an action taken to demand the release of a Tunisian activist. Her novel Les contemplées was inspired by her time in prison.
