Antonia Michaelis was born in North Germany in 1979. She spent the first two years of her childhood in a tiny village on the Baltic seaside. Later on she moved to South Germany and spent her childhood and adolescence surrounded by her crazy-likeable parents and various cats. She started writing stories at a very young age. After finishing school Antonia Michaelis left Germany and moved to South India for a year. She worked in a school near Madras as a teacher for English, arts, and acting. Various journeys took her to Turkey, Italy, Greece, Syria and the UK.
Today, the young writer lives in the Northeast of Germany. She has just finished studying medicine and has dedicated herself for the time being to writing children's books.