Anette Lang

Anette Lang was born in Nuremberg in 1978. She studied German literature, media studies, and literary translation at the universities of Erlangen, Venice, and Córdoba. She was manager of a bookshop in Madrid from 2005 – 2008. After several years in Berlin teaching German as a foreign language and working as a freelance journalist, she now lives with her family in the American Mid-West. Her journalism has appeared in German newspapers such as taz (die tageszeitung) and Junge Welt, and she has written prize-winning short stories selected by Buchjournal, the Nuremberg Bookshops’ Literary Prize, and the Bavarian Radio Short Story Competition, and others.