Rea Mair studied comparative literature, ethnology and theater studies as well as literary writing and worked at the university as well as in journalism. For several years she was involved in educational and social art projects in India, Nepal and Senegal. In Berlin, Rea designs cultural education for children and young people and writes.

Rea Mair worked in Schöppingen on her novel „Kalis Kinder/ Verschwindende Punkte“ (working title). Tomorrow is too late to change the world, is the premise of the novel, which is set in a world affected by the climate crisis. It tells the story of friends who commit sabotage and are torn apart in the tumult of social turmoil. It is about loss, of the present that cannot be preserved, as well as of the future that offers nothing, and about the attempt to act to preserve something, to look forward, holding together.