Séverine Chevalier was born in 1973 in Lyon where she spent the first twenty years of her life. After studying at Sciences Po, she pursued a postgraduate degree in public law and became a lawyer at the town hall of Saint-Étienne. She then lived for thirteen years in Marseille where she began to write. In 2015, she moved with her family to Auvergne. She is the author of four novels Recluses (2011), Clouer l’ouest (2014), Les mauvaises (2018) and Jeannette et le crocodile.
