Luna Ali was born in Syria in 1993 and studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice in Hildesheim, literary writing at the German Literature Institute Leipzig and anthropology at the University of Leipzig. She has worked as an author on productions at the Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Hanover theatres and in Berlin, among others. In 2023 she received the working scholarship for German-language literature from the Berlin Senate Department. In 2024, her debut novel ‘Da waren Tage’ was published by S. Fischer. She lives in Berlin