Sandra Hoffmann was born in 1967 and lives in Munich, where she teaches creative writing and writes for radio and the travel section at DIE ZEIT. For her 2012 novel Was ihm fehlen wird, wenn er tot ist, she received the Thaddäus Troll Prize, followed by the Hans Fallada Prize for Paula. Sandra Hoffmann was writer-in-residence at the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School in 2018.