Mechthild Gläser was born in Essen, in the Summer of 1986. Today, she still lives in the Ruhr area of Germany, where she studies and where she occasionally dances ballet incredibly badly, so only when nobody is looking. She started writing at an early age, and her laptop still sits on the pink computer desk that she wrote her first stories on. She finds inspiration everywhere, at best when drinking a cup of peppermint tea.