Claire Legendre was born in Nice in 1979. From her first book, Making-Of, published when she was only eighteen, the writer has worked both the detective and confessional fields, with Viande, La méthode Stanislavski, L’écorchée vive, and Photobiographies. She lived in Rome, at the Villa Medicis in 2000, and in Prague, before settling in Quebec, where she has taught creative writing at the Université de Montréal since 2011.