Malou Berlin was born in 1961 in Neckarsulm. After graduating from high school, she moves to Berlin in 1980 and is trained as a motor cycle mechanic at BMW. After work, she participates in writing classes on a regular basis and publishes narratives and short stories in anthologies and newspapers. In 2006, after moving to Brandenburg, she publishes her first novel and is invited to readings all over Germany. During her education at Filmarche e.V. in Berlin, she studies script writing, project and character development from 2006 to 2009. She works on several short film scripts and participates in the Dokumentarfilm AG. Currently, she is working on a new novel.