Christelle Dabos (born 1980) is a French author best known for The Mirror Visitor quartet, a fantasy series that has sold over a million copies at Gallimard Jeunesse and has been translated into twenty different languages.

The author moved across the border to a village near La Louvière in Wallonia,[2] Belgium,[3] in 2005 and unsuccessfully sought work as a librarian.

[4] In her convalescence, she turned to the website Plume d'argent, a repository for fanfiction and original fiction where writers could exchange feedback.

The story begins when Ophelia is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn man from a far-away ark called the Pole.

[25] Writing Here, and Only Here, Dabos was "strongly influenced by magic realism",[26] especially South American authors like Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende and José Donoso.