ANNE BARBUSSE (FRANCE)

ANNE BARBUSSE was born in 1969. After earning the agrégation in Classics, she taught Latin literature at Paris 8 University before settling in a small village in the Gard region. She currently teaches French as a foreign language to migrant teenagers.

Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Arpa, Le Capital des mots, Traction-Brabant, Comme en poésie, Cabaret, Mot à maux, and Margelles. Her first poetry collection, Les quatre murs le seau le lit, was published by Encres Vives in 2020, in the Encres Blanches series. She writes poetry, translates modern Greek poetry, and produces creative writing on cinema.

Her publications include Les quatre murs le seau le lit (Encres Blanches, 2020), Moi la dormante (Unicité, 2021), Les accouchantes nues (Unicité, 2022), A Petros, crise grecque (Bruno Guattari Éditeur, 2022), La non-mère (Pourquoi viens-tu si tard ?, 2023), Recluse (Pourquoi viens-tu si tard ?, 2023), Ma douleur planétaire (Tarmac, 2024), Ils ont défécondé l’avenir (Encres Vives, 2024), Ohitza (with Loan Diaz, Poétisthme, 2024), Terra (in)cognita (Unicité, 2024), and Les mères sont très faciles à tuer (Pourquoi viens-tu si tard ?, 2025).