Simone Heller lives on an island in the river Danube in Regensburg, Germany. She has been working as a literary translator for over 15 years. Her first steps in writing in English were taken in 2016, after workshopping with a group of international writers in Munich, and her short fiction has since appeared in several magazins and anthologies. She loves learning all kinds of things: words most of all, but also history, science, and everything about the strange creatures of Earth (and beyond?).