Background
She was born in 1967 and brought up in Germany and has also lived in London and in Argentina.
She was born in 1967 and brought up in Germany and has also lived in London and in Argentina.
She divides her time between Cologne and Wales, (where she learnt Welsh) and writes in German and English. Her short stories and articles in English have been published in magazines and anthologies in Wales, Canada and the United States. Her programmes for German public radio (in German) include pieces about the Queen of Sheba, Morgan le Fay, Zora Neale Hurston, the Mapuche people of Patagonia, and the cultural histories of sheep, dragons and the apple, respectively. Her current project, a novel set in first-century Iron Age Britain and Ancient Rome, received a grant from Academi, the Welsh literature promotion agency.
Her travel narrative "Beyond the Pampas: in Search of Patagonia" was published in November 2012.