Anaïs Meier was born in 1984 in Berlin. She studied at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and at the Swiss Institute for Literature. In 2013 she co-founded the Büro für Probleme and in 2018 RAUF. She writes the column "Aus dem Réduit" for the Fabrikzeitung in Zurich. In 2019 her story "Über Berge, Menschen und insbesondere Bergschnecken" is published at Mikrotext, which will be followed by her debut novel Mit einem Fuss draussen at Voland & Quist in 2021. Anaïs Meier lives in Zurich.