Black and white close-up portrait of a woman with straight dark hair, parted in the center, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. The background is blurred.

Elsa Gribinski

Essayist, anthologist, poet, lyricist, and translator (from Russian), Bordeaux-based Elsa Gribinski (1971-present) secured a Goncourt nomination with her recent debut, Toiles, a collection of sixteen ekphrastically inspired stories.