Yan Lespoux was born in 1977. He grew up in the Médoc, France. He teaches Occitan at the University Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3. He regularly leads author debates in festivals, and organizes meetings with Olivier Pène and Hervé Le Corre at the Librairie La machine à lire in Bordeaux. He collaborates to various magazines (Marianne, Alibi, Sang Froid, 813) for which he writes about black novels. And he has also created a blog : www.encoredunoir.com, which has become a reference in the world of detective novels. Presqu’îles is his first collection of short stories.
