Lucie Taïeb was born in Paris in 1977. She is a teacher and researcher and has published texts in reviews, essays (Territoires de mémoire, Les Classiques Garnier, 2012), two short story collections (Tout aura brûlé, Les Inaperçus, 2013, La retenue, LansKine, 2015) and several translations from German (Cruellement là, by Friederike Mayröcker, Atelier de l’Agneau, 2014). She won the 2019 Wepler Prize for Les échappées.