Ursula Poznanski was born in Vienna in 1968 where she still lives and works. In 2003 she published her first children's book, Buchstabendschungel, and in 2006 she was awarded the Children's and Juvenile's Book Prize of Vienna for Die allerbeste Prinzessin. Ursula has been thinking up stories for a very long time, although at first she preferred to write poems and stories that were as short as possible. Gradually she moved on to writing a few early readers, children's crime books, one detour into teen romance, and a fantasy manuscript, before her first thriller arrived: Erebos. A runaway international success, Erebos has now been translated into over 20 languages.