Cecile Rossant

Born and raised in New York City, Cecile Rossant is a writer and performer who applies a multidisciplinary approach to all her work. After earning a BA in Biology she apprenticed in the studio of the painter and architect Arakawa, an experience which inspired her to study architecture. She received a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and worked several years at the offices of Arata Isozaki & Associates in New York, Tokyo and Berlin, where she has lived since 1995.

She is the author of the novels Tokyo Bay Traffic (Red Hen Press 2008), Underground NewYork (Cornelsen Verlag 2006) and the collections of short fiction About Face (Red Hen Press2004) and Microfictions in collaboration with the artist Nana Suzuki (Pluraal Verlag 2021). Her stories and poems have appeared in many journals including Salt Hill, Exberliner, The Crucifix is Down, Bordercrossings, Graensen Grenzen, and the London Review. Her third young adult novel Fractured was published by Cornelsen Verlag at the end of 2024.

Cecile Rossant studied performance with Peter Rose and Daniela Marcozzi. She has since written and performed The Butcher, a solo one act play at the International High Fest in Yerevan, Armenia in 2024 and at Expedition Metropolis Theater in Berlin in 2025.

In collaboration with Frank Schubert and Paul Erdmann she is the co-artistic director and event curator for Galerie ADAMA.

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