Alisha Gamisch, she/her, studied German and English language and literature in Munich and London. She lives as a freelance author and curator in Berlin. Her first volume of poetry Lustdorf was published in 2020 by Verlagshaus Berlin and was selected as one of the best poetry debuts of 2020 by Haus für Poesie and nominated for the Ulla Hahn Prize. For her novel project Parasiti she received the research grant in 2021 and the working grant of the Berlin Senate in 2022, in the same year the Nora Pfeffer Prize for Poetry. In 2023, she was a fellow of the LCB Berlin’s Writers‘ Workshop. She is co-founder of the intersectional feminist organisation Wepsert e.V. and organizes cultural events. She currently curates and presents the reading and discussion series PostOst-Café.