Marlène Tissot was born in 1971, wrote her first poem at the age of ten and has never stopped since. She did not study literature but, for reasons that are still unclear, electronics and computer programming. Until being 30-year-old, she had not revealed her interest in literature, that’s why only in 2000 she published her pieces of writing on the internet.

Tissot’s first poetry collection «Our Share of Uninhabited Lands» was published in 2010. The same year her first novel «Reverse Knitting» came into public. In total she has published ten poetry collections, two novels and a number of short stories. One of her short stories, «Different» was awarded with the France Culture prize for audio books. Her poetry collection «Under the flowers of the tapestry» won the CoPo prize and has been translated in Georgian by Maya Katsanashvili (is to be published by Agora publishing). Most recent collections by Tissot are following: «The voice in the dead end» (2020), «Life is a Beatles’ song» (2020), «The crossed out words» (2020) and «17:30 pm» (2022).

She has trouble sleeping, reads a lot, listens to music very loudly and loves to write on good old notebooks.