Irina Rosenau, born in Belarus, is an author and lives in Saarbrücken. She studied linguistics and literature in Minsk, Saarbrücken and Pisa. From 2008 to 2022, she worked as a lecturer in comparative literature at Saarland University. In 2019, she was awarded the Hans Bernhard Schiff Prize for Literature. In 2020, she received the Printemps Poétique Transfrontalier writing residency fellowship.

She has twice been a finalist for the Edit Essay Prize, in 2021 and 2023. Her texts have been published in magazines such as Cahiers Luxembourgeois, Das Narr, Edit, Saarbrücker Hefte, Sand, Streckenläufer and others. Irina Rosenau writes short stories and essays, and she is currently working on her first novel. In autumn 2024, her collection of stories Filmoskop will be published in the Topicana book series by Edition Saarländisches Künstlerhaus.