Author Stefanie Sargnagel was born in 1986 in a working class neighbourhood of Vienna, left school early, studied art and worked at a call centre. In 2013, she published her debut, the diaristic novel Binge Living (redelsteiner dahimène edition) and in 2014 the e-book In der Zukunft sind wir alle tot (In the future we’re all dead, mikrotext).