Cecile Rossant

Cecile Rossant, born and raised in New York City, 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 New York (Cornelsen Verlag 2006) and the collections of short fiction About Face (Red Hen Press 2004) 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 will be published by Cornelsen Verlag at the end of 2024.

In 2019, Rossant joined Marcozzi Contemporary Theater Ensemble performing in the company's productions of McBeth (2019), On Urgency*Pilot (2020), and On Urgency*Nesting (2021-2022). She was also a member of PAN/k Theater Company, created in Berlin in 2020 and took part in the urban performative interventions project Dreams on Target.

Rossant wrote and performed The Butcher, a solo performance piece that premiered in 2022 at the Expedition Metropolis Theater, Berlin.

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