Novelist and poet Marion Poschmann was born in Essen in 1969. She studied German Literature, Philosophy and Slavic Studies at the universities of Bonn and Berlin and went on to train as a poetry facilitator, teaching German as part of a German-Polish exchange project. She lives in Berlin.

Awards:

• 2000 Cultural Fund Foundation Scholarship
• 2002 Alfred Döblin Scholarship
• 2003 Award for Authors Lower Saxony Foundation (poetry)
• 2003 Wolfgang-Weyrauch Award
• 2003 Residence Fellowship Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
• 2003 Workshop reading as part of the Alfred Döblin Award
• 2004 Residence Fellowship at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome
• 2005 Cultural Circle of German Business in BDI Award
• 2005 Nominated for the German Book Prize with the novel Schwarzweißroman
• 2005 Literature Prize Ruhr area
• 2006 Heinrich Heine Residence Fellowship Lüneburg (January-March)
• 2006 Residence Fellowship Villa Concordia
• 2006 Droste Literature Prize from the city of Meersburg
• 2007 North Rhine-Westphalia Award
• 2007 German Literature Fund Grant
• 2007 Literature Fellowship Worpswede