Kristina Schilke
Born in 1986 in Chelyabinsk, former Soviet Union. Emigrated with her family to Grafenau in the Bavarian Forest at the end of 1993. After graduating from high school in 2006, she studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig until 2011. Scholarship recipient, among others, of the Literary Colloquium Berlin, the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. Debuted in 2016 with the collection of short stories Elefanten treffen published by Piper Verlag. Nominated for the Silberschwein Prize and the Clemens Brentano Prize for this book. Her short stories have been published in Dummy - Das Gesellschaftsmagazin, Sprache im technischen / digitalen Zeitalter, anthologies Durchatmen - Geschichten über Gelassenheit, Buh! Gespenstergeschichten, Merci - Geschichten voller Dankbarkeit (all published by Diogenes Verlag). Her most recent novel, Alles was lebt, was published by Gans Verlag in 2025. The author is married, has a son, and lives and works in Leipzig.