Clarisse Griffon du Bellay is an artist and writer who specializes in sculpture and wood carving. She is the recipient of the ArtCheval Public Prize and the Georges Coulon Prize from the Institut de France, and has completed two prestigious residencies affiliated with the Académie des Beaux-Arts at La Villa Dufraine in France and Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. Raw: Shipwreck, Secrets, and the Afterlife of an Infamous Family History is her first book. She lives in Nemours, France.