Monique Schwitter was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and now lives in Hamburg, Germany. She is the author of two volumes of short stories If It Snows, Let's Meet at the Crocodile (2006), for which she was awarded the Robert Walser Prize, and Goldfish Memory (2011), as well as a novel Ohren haben keine Lider and the play Himmels-W (both in 2008).