A graduate of the Bordeaux Institute of Journalism, Marie Bardet is based in Occitanie, where she lives, and contributes to Zulma's annual review of literature and reflection, Apulée. With éditions Emmanuelle Collas, she authored an acclaimed first novel - À la droite du père (Renaudot spring selection and finalist for the 2018 Senghor Prize). In January 2021, she published Babylift, her second novel, with the same publisher.