Simone Heller lives on an island on the river Danube in Regensburg, Germany. She has been working as a literary translator for thirteen years. Her first steps in writing in English were taken in 2016, after workshopping with a group of international writers in Munich. Since then, her short fiction has been a Hugo and Sturgeon Award finalist and won the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. She loves learning all kinds of things: words most of all, but also history, science, and everything about all the strange creatures of Earth. Read more about her at missnavigator.com.