Since 2009 she has been best known as a science fiction and fantasy author, where her novels and short stories have won several awards.

After taking drama classes in Paris and San Francisco,[1] Estelle Faye turned her attention to directing and writing science fiction, horror and fantasy.

She started to write fantasy fiction in 2008 after responding to a call by Calmann-Lévy to propose stories for an anthology around the theme of dragons.

[6] In 2017 she published a dark fantasy novel Les seigneurs de Boyen, in which monsters, magic, sorcery are invoked in a tale questionning the making of real away from circles of power.

[8] Her novel L'arpenteuse des rêves published in 2021 is an ecological tale[9] inspired by the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and evolves around themes of climatic change.