Christelle Dabos is a renowned French author, born in 1980 on the French Riviera. She grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical puzzles. More imaginative than cerebral, she began to scribble her first texts during university. Settled in Belgium, she intended to become a librarian when a disease occurred. Writing then became an escape from the medical machinery, eventually growing into a second nature.

She gained recognition with her debut novel, A Winter's Promise, part of the The Mirror Visitor quartet, which has sold over a million copies and been translated into twenty languages. The series starts in a world where people live on 'arches' suspended in the air, each led by a family spirit.

Dabos has won several awards, including the Gallimard-RTL-Télérama First Novel (2013) and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Francophone Youth Novel (2016).

Her writing journey was influenced by the community of Plume d'Argent, which encouraged her to enter the Gallimard Jeunesse Competition, leading to her current success.