Born in Paris in 1973, Antonin Varenne spent his childhood in the four corners of France, then on a sailboat. After graduating from university, he became a construction mountaineer, lived in Toulouse, worked in Iceland and Mexico and, in 2005, he anchored himself at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains where he decided to write his first story on paper. Returning to France accompanied by an American woman, a bilingual child and a Mexican dog, he settled in Creuse and now devotes himself to writing.