Nina Lörken, born in Osnabrück, studied law and journalism. She was a finalist in one of the most important German-language competitions for young writers, the Open Mike of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin. Her texts have been published in anthologies and various other media, including the publishing house Hatje Cantz. Nina is currently working on her debut novel, for which she spent extended research periods in Colombia and Crete. When she is not on the road, she lives and writes in Berlin.

In Schöppingen, Nina Lörken worked on her novel project „Das Paradies ist kein Ort“ (Paradise is Not a Place). The episodic novel illuminates man’s relationship to nature and spirituality in a digitalized and globalized age. The protagonists search for paradise – in the exoticism of distant lands, in the forest, in the zoo, on the Internet. Philosophical and mythological elements are contrasted with contemporary phenomena of Internet culture and paint a picture of a present between tantric rituals and dead roosters, hashtags and plastic islands, radioactive papayas and blue flamingos.