Kristina Hußmann, born in the Ruhr region in 1994, is a trained media designer and studied communication design. She worked for DIE ZEIT in Hamburg for three years before setting off with her husband in October 2022 to walk the length of New Zealand. Today, Kristina Hußmann lives and works as a freelance graphic designer in Essen, combining her creative passion with the freedom to spend a lot of time in nature and on the move.

Marlena Anders, born in 1994, lives in Wolfsburg and works as a project manager in the automotive software sector. In her spare time, surrounded by her personal library, she captures fantastic and emotional stories on paper. She prefers to start her day writing in the early hours of the morning.

Nicolas Kreutter was born in a small village in Switzerland and moved to Berlin in his early 20s to work as a radio presenter before switching to television, developing TV formats, meeting his wife and starting a family. When he lost his job during the coronavirus pandemic, he ventured into two new beginnings: he founded the expat podcast Einfach aussteigen (Simply Get Out) and emigrated to Ireland with his family.

Katja Roese was born in Lahr in the Black Forest in 1985 and trained as a bookseller. Fascinated by the power of words, she studied German literature in Freiburg and Berlin after completing her training. Today, she works for a scientific publishing house during the day and hunts for letters for her first manuscript at night. When she does sleep, she dreams of daring heroes, fantastic places and crazy adventures.You can find her on Instagram at @geschichten_aus_litterra.

Ann-Kristin Hensen, born in 1989, studied applied literature and cultural studies in Dortmund and taught at a university in Atlanta for a year after completing her master's degree. Today, she lives with her family in the Lower Rhine region and works at the Moers City Library as head of the children's, youth and adult library department. She has been awarded the Dortmund LesArt Prize and the Moers Literature Prize and has published short stories in various anthologies. Find out more about the author on Instagram (annkristinhensen).

Kathrin Wilhelmy, born in 1987, works as an author, theatre actress and acting lecturer. She began her writing career by penning short stories and young adult novels, the latter of which were published under a pseudonym by Oetinger Verlag. Since her youth, she has devoured suspense in a wide variety of formats, and now that her own ideas have been knocking ever louder, she can hardly wait to lure her readers down the wrong track and keep them breathlessly on the edge of their seats with her thriller debut. The author lives with her family near Trier.

Meik Gudermann has worked in more professions than many series have seasons: after several years in youth welfare, he completed an internship and switched to radio as a presenter, from where he immersed himself in the dazzling world of musicals. There, he first managed the social media presence and then worked his way up to Head of Content. Many different worlds, but the same Menners everywhere. Today, he is an author, content creator and, according to one particularly annoyed hater, ‘a gay explainer who explains the world to men’.

Wiktoria A. Wieczorek has lived and written in a small town in Lower Saxony since childhood. Even at a young age, she loved to immerse herself in her own dream world full of princesses and rock stars. This enthusiasm for storytelling developed into a passion, which she expresses on her blog chapteraway, where she regularly presents her favourite books and shares them with other bookworms. Aside from her literary adventures, the author is a trained media designer, where she indulges her creative streak and love of detail.

Inga Hanka (born 1988) worked as a copywriter and photographer for radio, print and various online media before combining creative writing techniques with current coaching methods in workshops under the motto ‘Create instead of consume’. She lives with her husband and three children in Kempen on the Lower Rhine, where they run a nursery.