Ariane Dreyfus is a French poet, retired professor, literary critic, and activist. She was born in 1958, as she says, “to exiles,” Ashkenazi Jewish on her father’s side and Indochinese on her mother’s. She is the author of 16 collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in most major literary periodicals and prominent anthologies in France and was included in New European Poets, ed. Kevin Prufer and Wayne Miller (Graywolf Press, 2008). Le dernier livre des enfants (Flammarion, 2016) is her 8th book of poems. She is a consultant on the boards of the magazines Poezibao and Remue.net. and continues to teach poetry writing workshops. Nous nous attendon and Iris, c’est votre bleu was published in Poesie/Gallimard in 2023. Forthcoming is “double été” (printemps, 2024).
