Antje Rávic Strubel currently lives and works as a writer in Potsdam. Her novels include Snowed Under; Fremd Gehen. Ein Nachtstück, and Tupolew 134. Her novel Kältere Schichten der Luft (2007) won the Hermann Hesse Preis, Rheingau Literatur Prize, and was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Her most recent novel, Sturz der Tage in die Nacht (2011), was nominated for the German Book Prize.

Strubel is also author of the travel essay books Gebrauchsanweisung für Schweden and the Gebrauchsanweisung für Potsdam und Brandenburg. She has translated numerous works by Joan Didion into German and the short stories of Lucia Berlin. She was writer-in-residence at the Deutsches Haus NYU and at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in Finland.