Mia Raben (*1977) lives and works as an author and journalist in Hamburg. She studied Spanish, Political Science and European Law at the University of Amsterdam, and graduated with a Master of Arts. After her education at the Berlin School of Journalism, she went to Warsaw, where she worked as a freelance correspondent for various media (Berliner Zeitung, Spiegel Online, taz, FAZ and others). In 2015, the book „Masuria – In the Land of a Thousand Lakes“, an illustrated book with reportages, was published by National Geographic PIPER Verlag. She was invited by the Literaturhaus München to the Novel Workshop of the Bavarian Academy of Writing, and received the „Albrecht Lempp Scholarship“ from the Literary Colloquium Berlin and the Instytut Książki (Polish Book Institute), which enabled a one-month writing stay in Krakow. In 2022 she finished the master of the German Literature Institute in Leipzig (DLL).
In Schöppingen, Mia Raben is working on her novel, which is about Polish workers in Germany. The central theme of her literary work is the German-Polish relationship, as well as the common, painful history and how this shapes the relationships between people.