Lea-Lina Opperman, born in 1998 in Berlin, studied Speech Arts at a state university for music and performing arts. Hearing, reading, and experiencing stories led her to take up storytelling herself. Her debut novel Was wir dachten was wir taten (What we thought we did) became a bestseller; her most recent book is Fürchtet uns, wir sind die Zukunft (Fear us, we are the future).