Anne-Sophie Balzer is a journalist, writer, and translator, as well as an admirer of all things wildly constant. She writes essays, literary reviews, features, poetry, and a PhD thesis titled Writing with Glaciers. Anne-Sophie holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Erfurt and an MA in Cultural Theory and History from Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2021 to 2025, she was a member of the Graduate School (Re)thinking Environment at the University of Augsburg and received a Fulbright grant for her research in the U.S.
Her journalistic work has appeared in leading German publications including DIE ZEIT, ZEIT ONLINE, Berliner Zeitung, and taz – die tageszeitung. She is also an occasional contributor to the national public radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur. English poems and translations have been published in Amberflora, Plant-Human Quarterly, Maiden Magazine, Blood Orange Review, and elsewhere.
Her debut work of non-fiction, Das Meereis schmilzt während wir uns verlieben (Sea Ice Melting While We Fall in Love), will be published by Aufbau Verlag in the summer of 2026. She is represented by the literary agency Rauchzeichen.