Anika Landsteiner was born in Lower Franconia in 1987. She is a trained actress and works as an author, journalist and podcaster. The focus of her journalistic writing is on social injustices, interpersonal relationships and pop culture. Her texts have appeared in Qiio, ze.tt<http://ze.tt&gt;, Tagesspiegel, Iconist, emotion and others. In her Spiegel bestseller novels So wie du mich kennst and Nachts erzähle ich dir alles, she deals with the topics of sexualized violence and female self-determination. Her essay collection Sorry not sorry - über weibliche Scham closes this circle with personal texts.

In 2016, she received the ISARNETZ Blog Award for the best blog in Munich (meanwhile closed down). In 2022, she received the “Junge Kunst und neue Wege” (Young Art and New Paths) scholarship.