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Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Born and raised in Paris to a family whose roots span India, Vietnam and the Republic of the Congo, she is interested in how history lives on in families, relationships and communities, and in the ways people negotiate belonging and home across generations.
She studied Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin before completing a degree in Sociocultural Studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina. She later became a Visiting Scholar in African Diaspora Studies and Black Geographies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores Black popular culture, dancehall, postcolonial identity and transnational cultural exchange, and has resulted in two academic books, Welches Geschlecht hat Dancehall? and Resistdance.
Alongside her literary practice, Cyrielle works in creative project management, leading international creative productions and campaigns for global fashion brands. She has spent more than a decade developing cultural programmes that bring together literature, dance, music and critical dialogue. As former Chair of MINCE e.V., she helped shape the CDC Festival in Berlin, one of Europe's leading Afro-Caribbean dance festivals, where she curated the conference programme and community sessions, creating spaces for exchange between artists, scholars and communities.
Cyrielle is an alumna of the Black Women Writers in Europe residency. She has participated in the Kweli International Literary Festival and developed her fiction through the Stuyvesant Writing Workshop under the mentorship of novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn.
At the heart of her writing is a fascination with how people inherit, resist and reinvent the worlds they come from.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Born and raised in Paris to a family whose roots span India, Vietnam and the Republic of the Congo, she is interested in how history lives on in families, relationships and communities, and in the ways people negotiate belonging and home across generations.
She studied Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin before completing a degree in Sociocultural Studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina. She later became a Visiting Scholar in African Diaspora Studies and Black Geographies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores Black popular culture, dancehall, postcolonial identity and transnational cultural exchange, and has resulted in two academic books, Welches Geschlecht hat Dancehall? and Resistdance.
Alongside her literary practice, Cyrielle works in creative project management, leading international creative productions and campaigns for global fashion brands. She has spent more than a decade developing cultural programmes that bring together literature, dance, music and critical dialogue. As former Chair of MINCE e.V., she helped shape the CDC Festival in Berlin, one of Europe's leading Afro-Caribbean dance festivals, where she curated the conference programme and community sessions, creating spaces for exchange between artists, scholars and communities.
Cyrielle is an alumna of the Black Women Writers in Europe residency. She has participated in the Kweli International Literary Festival and developed her fiction through the Stuyvesant Writing Workshop under the mentorship of novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn.
At the heart of her writing is a fascination with how people inherit, resist and reinvent the worlds they come from.