Patricia Koelle was born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1964, grew up in a bilingual family on both sides of the Atlantic and now lives in Berlin with her husband. She has published a novel and several collections of short stories in German and is currently working on a novella and her second novel. Also available as an English e-book is "A Dream's Nest", a colorful story for children and adults about how childhood dreams can be kept safe or rediscovered.