Born in 1976 in Dunkerque, Mélanie Fazi splits her time between writing and translating authors such as Graham Joyce, Lisa Tuttle, or Brandon Sanderson into French. She has published two novels (Trois pépins du fruit des morts and Arlis des forains) and three collections of stories (Serpentine, Notre-Dame-aux-Ecailles, Le Jardin des silences) and was published in Kadath, an homage to the village created by HP Lovecraft.