Marie Baléo is a French writer, poet, and editor born in 1990.

Marie’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. She is one of the winners of the Poetry Society’s 2020 National Poetry Competition.

Marie’s first poetry collection, Submersion, was published by Digging Press in 2023 and was previously long-listed for the 2020 PANK Book Prize. A selection of poems from Submersion was featured as a portfolio in the 2022 issue of Poetry International.

From 2017 to 2023, Marie was one of the Editors of Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature.

Marie is also the founder of Manifeste, an editorial services firm based in Paris. She previously served as Head of Publications for two French think tanks (Institut Montaigne, La Fabrique de la Cité) and as one of the editors of European geopolitical review Le Grand Continent. She is a Robert Bosch Foundation Global Governance Futures 2035 Fellow and Cities & Regions Fellow of the Open Diplomacy Institute. She is currently a columnist for Urbanisme.

Marie holds a B.A. in International & Area Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. and M.A. in Economic Law from Sciences Po. She was raised in France, Norway, and Lebanon and now lives in Paris.