CLÉMENCE MICHALLON is the author of The Quiet Tenant, a USA Today and international bestseller and nominee for the Dashiell Hammett Prize and Our Last Resort, which was a national bestseller. Her work has been optioned for TV and translated into more than thirty languages. She is also a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Time Magazine, The Independent, and more. Clémence was born and raised near Paris, has lived in New York since 2014, and became a US citizen in 2022. She can be found on Instagram at clemencemichallon and at clemencemichallon.substack.com.