After studying literature at the Sorbonne, criminology in New York and working as a journalist on Radio Classique, Emilie Guillaumin moved to Miami where she worked as a journalist, but also as a French teacher, insurance agent, waitress, newspaper delivery girl... In between, she spent two years in the French Army, an adventure from which she drew Féminine, a first novel published by Fayard in September 2016. Since then, Emilie Guillaumin works again at the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, and continues to write.