Sandra Moussempès

Sandra Moussempès is the author of 14 books, most recently Sauvons l’ennemie (Flammarion 2025), Fréquence Mulholland (Éditions MF 2023), and Cassandre à bout pourtant (Flammarion 2021). She was the recipient of Prix de Rome at Villa Médicis, Rome, and the Théophile Gauthier Prize from the French Academy for Cassandre à bout portant. Also a performance artist, she uses her singing voice to give atmosphere to her readings, summoning a form of hypnosis. She has released four sound poetry albums and has performed at many venues and festivals, including the Centre Pompidou, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, MAMCO in Geneva, and the University of Cambridge. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou International Prize for Literature. She regularly facilitates creative writing workshops at universities, in art schools, or in middle schools in low-income neighborhoods. She lives in Paris and is the mother of a son.

Cassandra at point-blank range is the first full-length translation of her work.