Anne-Sophie Brasme was born in Metz in 1984. She was seventeen years old when she published Respire, her first novel, with Fayard Editions. The book was translated into eighteen languages and adapted in 2014 for the cinema by Mélanie Laurent, with Lou de Laage and Joséphine Jappy in the main roles. She then published Le Carnaval des monstres in 2005 (Prix Feuille d’or de la ville de Nancy), followed by Notre Vie antérieure in 2014 and Que rien ne tremble in 2021, again published by Fayard.