Tina Brenneisen, born in Dresden, studied psychology and philosophy at the TU Dresden and FU Berlin. She lives and works as a comicartist and cartoonist in Berlin and is the founder of Parallelallee, a small independent publisher of comics and illustrated literature. In 2017 she won the Comic Book Prize of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation for the work "Das Licht, das Schatten leert", which is expected to be published in 2019.