Verena Rossbacher was born in 1979 in Bludenz/Vorarlberg. She grew up in Austria and Switzerland, where she took several semesters of philosophy, German studies, and theology, before continuing her studies at the German Literature Institute Leipzig. She has published four novels with Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Verlangen nach Drachen, Schwätzen und Schlachten, Ich war Diener im Hause Hobbs, and Mon Chéri und unsere demolierten Seelen.