I write both fiction and non-fiction, and am forever curious about protagonists – and real people – who find themselves at turning points. An anthropologist by academic training and a dreamer by nature, my process is fueled by research, observation, interviews, memory and imagination

My perspective is deeply shaped by having lived through a revolution and navigated life in two radically different systems. I grew up in a communist model city, behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany. Then, a historic stroke of luck – the fall of the Berlin Wall – catapulted me into a new life of freedom. I seized the opportunity to explore the world, living in England, South Africa, Japan, and the United States, and traveling to places that had once been completely closed off to me. 

After a career in commercial writing – where my words have been narrated by Jon Hamm, winked from billboards and spoken by the then-President of the German Bundestag – I am now writing novels, essays, and short fiction.

I live in Los Angeles.

You can read my bio here.