Marie Baléo is a French writer and poet born in 1990. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and she is one of the winners of the Poetry Society’s 2020 National Poetry Competition. Marie’s first poetry collection, Submersion, was published by Digging Press in 2023 and was previously long-listed for the 2020 PANK Book Prize.

Marie’s first nonfiction book, an investigation into the chlordecone scandal in the French Caribbean, is forthcoming from Grasset in January 2025.

Marie is also the founder of Manifeste, an editorial services firm based in Paris. She previously served as Head of Publications for two French think tanks (Institut Montaigne, La Fabrique de la Cité) and was one of the editors of European geopolitical review Le Grand Continent. She is a Robert Bosch Foundation Global Governance Futures 2035 Fellow and Cities & Regions Fellow of the Open Diplomacy Institute. From 2017 to 2023, Marie was one of the Editors of Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature. She is currently a columnist for Urbanisme.

Marie holds a B.A. in International & Area Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. and M.A. in Economic Law from Sciences Po. She was raised in France, Norway, and Lebanon and now lives in Paris.