is a French poet and writer living in Digne-les-Bains, France. She has published more than twenty-five books in essentially every genre, most of which have appeared with the publishing houses P.O.L. and La Fabrique. Quintane’s writing distinguishes itself by the recombination of memoir, prose poem, narration, reportage, tract, journalism, autofiction, pastiche, literary criticism, etc. into new literary forms. In the 1990s, Quintane began publishing and performing in Marseille alongside poets Christophe Tarkos and Stéphane Bérard with whom she established the poetry review RR, which parodied the contemporary literary establishment. Beginning with her first books, Chaussures and Remarques, her writing has continued resisting the fixed style of la belle langue (beautiful language) which dominates the global literary marketplace, while also seeking to destabilize the overreliance on derivative stylings among the insurrectionary left. Her bio on her publisher’s site reads: “My name is still Nathalie Quintane. My birthdate has not changed. I live in the same place to this day. There aren’t many of me, but I am determined.” Two of her books (Joan Darc and Tomatoes) have previously appeared in English translation (with La Presse and Kenning Editions, respectively). Quintane was the last recipient of the Prix du Zorba (otherwise known as the Anti-Goncourt award) in 2018 for her book about the Yellow Vest movement in France, Un oeil en moins.