Agnès Verlet was born on 14 July 1947 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris into a family of museum conservators.

[1] In 1995, she returned to Paris where she practiced psychoanalysis (affiliate member of the Société de Psychanalyse Freudienne (SPF), and of Empreintes et Arts).

She also wrote texts on contemporary artists: 2004: Denis Pondruel, Ways to Enter an Empty Room, Galerie Duchamp.

From 2005 to 2015, she collaborated with Gallimard editions as an author of texts on painting by doing image readings for the “Folioplus Classique" collection (about fifty titles).

[2] She is the author of numerous articles on literature, art, and psychoanalysis, several essays or critical works, as well as fiction (novel, theater, short stories).