Estelle Faye (born 1 May 1978) began her career as a French actor and screenwriter. Since 2009 she has been best known as a science fiction and fantasy author, where her novels and short stories have won several awards.
After taking drama classes in Paris and San Francisco, Estelle Faye turned her attention to directing and writing science fiction, horror and fantasy. In 2008, she graduated from the screenwriting section of Femis. She has written several short films, one of which won the Prix France Télévisions.
She started to write fantasy fiction in 2008 after responding to a call by Calmann-Lévy to propose stories for an anthology around the theme of dragons. She published her first adult novel Porcelaine. In 2017 she published a dark fantasy novel Les seigneurs de Boyen, in which monsters, magic, sorcery are invoked in a tale questioning the making of real away from circles of power. The novel also features various magical creatures, among which a changeling, a hermaphrodite, a monk of uncertain sexual status, a lesbian, a vulture, all creatures whose differences sexual or magical coerce and are attracted to each other, revelling a part of the revolution to be.
In 2018 she published a feminist and anarchist novel, Les nuages de Magellan.
Her novel L'arpenteuse des rêves published in 2021 is an ecological tale inspired by the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and evolves around themes of climatic change.
Her books are illustrated by Amandine Labarre.
Since 2019, she has been taking part in the writing podcast Procrastination with Lionel Davoust and Mélanie Fazi.
She is a member of the Charte des auteurs et illustrateurs jeunesse. She intervened in feminist and gender themed conferences on science fiction.
Along with everal authors she published a letter of support for Stéphanie Nicot after her eviction as director of Les Imaginales by the ÃÂpinal town hall, among which ïan Larue, Sylvie Lainé, Robin Hobb, Sara Doke, Sylvie Denis, Lucie Chenu, , and .