Andreas Stichmann studied at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig. In 2008 "Jackie in Silber", a volume of short stories, was published, for which he received the Clemens Brentano Prize, the Kranichsteiner Literaturförderpreis and the Hamburger Förderpreis für Literatur. "Das grosse Leuchten", his first novel, was nominated for the Bachmann Prize and was awarded the "Förderpreis" for the Bremen Literary Prize. "The abduction of the optimist Sydney Seapunk" was published in February 2017 by Rowohlt Verlag.