Tamara Bach was born in Limburg an der Lahn in 1976. She made her breakthrough with her first novel, Marsmadchen ( The Girl From Mars ), which was published in 2003 and received several book awards. Since then she has published many other novels, among them Was vom Sommer ubrig ist ( Wherever It Is Summer ), which won the German-French Prize for Youth Literature, a White Raven by the International Youth Library and the Catholic Children's Youth Book Prize in 2013. Tamara lives in Berlin.