Tom Liehr, born in 1962 in Berlin, was an editor at P.M. in the mid-eighties and won the first Playboy literature competition in 1990. He worked as executive consultant, radio producer and DJ. Since 1998 owner of a company for software development. Various publications in magazines (for instance in c't and the Austrian DATUM - Seiten der Zeit) und anthologies (at Lübbe, Heyne, among others). Liehr is co-founder of 42erAutoren - Verein zur Förderung der Literatur e. V. and functioned as its president as well. His novels Radio Nights (2003), Idiotentest (2005), Stellungswechsel (2007), Geisterfahrer (2008) and Pauschaltourist (2009) were published at Aufbau paperbacks. In July of 2011, Sommerhit follows next at Aufbau/Rütten & Loening.
