Isabelle Lehn was born in Bonn and lives in Leipzig. She studied in Tübingen and Leicester, graduated in Rhetorics and currently is researching at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig about the education of writers in the GDR. Her stories and essays were honoured several times, recently with the Edit Essay Award and in 2014 with the PROSANOVA Audience Award. Her debut novel Tie two birds was published in July 2016 at Eichborn and in the same year found itself on the short list for the Ingeborg Bachmann Award.