Sandra MoussempèsSandra Moussempès was born in 1965 in Paris. She is the author of 14 books, most recently Sauvons l'ennemie (Flammarion 2025), Fréquence Mulholland (Éditions MF 2023), Cassandre à bout pourtant (Flammarion 2021), Cinéma de l'affect (Boucles de voix of pour film fantôme) (Éditions de l'Attente 2020), Colloque des télépathes & CD Post-Gradiva (Éditions de l'Attente 2017), and Sunny girls (Poésie/Flammarion 2015). She was the recipient of Prix de Rome at Villa Médicis, Rome, and the Théophile Gauthier Prize from the French Academy for Cassandre à bout portant. Her poetry engages with tensions felt by the somatic and psychic mind, the cinematic and haunted image, the void and distension of femininity, and the multi-vocal and isolated narrative, to name a few. Additionally, a performance artist, she uses her sung voice to give atmosphere to her readings, summoning a form of hypnosis. She has released four sound poetry albums and has performed at many venues and festivals, including the Centre Pompidou, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, MAMCO in Geneva, and the University of Cambridge. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou International Prize for Literature. She regularly facilitates creative writing workshops at universities, in art schools, or in middle schools in low-income neighborhoods. She lives in Paris and is the mother of a son. Read More Read Less