Déborah Heissler

She became member of the Louis Guillaume Prose Poetry Award in January 2015 and member of the Revue Nunc Poetry Award in January 2017.

She was invited to a Book Fair in Salins-les-Bains (France), to a Book Fair in Paris featuring Luis Mizon and Fabrice Caravaca. She was invited to the Printemps des poètes in Paris, Bordeaux, Baume-les-Dames to read or sign with Claude Chambard, André Velter, Jean-Baptiste Para, Roland Choppard and Armand Dupuy among others. She also read for Ivy Writers Parisa bilingual reading series co-organized at Delaville Café and Berkeley Books of Paris by two American translators and poets Michelle Noteboom and Jennifer K Dick. Her poems were also read at the 11th edition of the Festival Présences à Frontenay in 2015 featuring three Chinese poets, Shucai Chen, Chun Sue and Chu Chen.

Since the publication of her second collection in spring 2011, she has obtained a writing scholarship from the CRLFC (Franche-Comté, France) and published Chiaroscuro, Æncrages & Co publisher, (2013). The CNL (Paris, France) awarded her a writing scholarship for the "Maison de la poésie de Rennes" in spring 2013.

She then left the National Library of France for India, China, Thailand and finally Vietnam where she taught French as a Foreign Language in several Universities and French Language Departments. Her stay at the University of Xiangtan in Hunan (China) provided her many photographs and poems. Like a swatch of night cut out of its own cloth, Cheyne publisher, 2010 –partly written in Hunan, China– was recognized by the Yvan Goll International Prize for French Poetry in 2011 as well as the Louis Guillaume Prose Poetry Award in 2012.

Then she became visiting Student at the Library-Museum of the Paris Opera in 2007, conducted research work on Roger Pic's Paris Opera Ballet photographs dedicated to dance in the 1960s and there discovered Jiří Kylián, Pina Bausch, Angelin Preljocaj, William Christie and Nicolas Le Riche.

She has been invited since 2005 to several readings and meetings at Unesco for the Day of Poetry, then at the Alliance Française of Paris—an international organization that aims to promote French language and culture around the world—and later at the Lectures sous l'arbre, a Festival organized by her publisher in France. She was also invited to read at Poés'Arts—the Festival organized by her publisher Æncrages & Co in Baume les Dames—featuring Philippe Claudel, Michel Butor, Françoise Ascal or Sabine Huynh and Armand Dupuy among others.

From 1994 to 2008, she devoted herself to the study of Contemporary Literature and was graduated of the University of Haute Alsace in Culture and Information Science (2008) in Mulhouse (France). She held a PhD in French Literature (2005), joined the Center for European Literary Studies at the University of Haute Alsace (2001–2008) and published at the same time her first collection of poems awarded by the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation Prize for the Vocation (Près d'eux, la nuit sous la neige, Cheyne, 2005).

From 1980 to 1998, training on the piano. In 1988 she won a writing scholarship Antoinette and Pol Neveux of the French Academy.

Deborah Heissler (born 5 May 1976 in Mulhouse, France) is a contemporary French author. Her works of poetry have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Louis Guillaume Prose Poetry Award (2012), the Yvan Goll Francophone Poetry Award (2011) and the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation Prize (2005).