Anne-Sophie Balzer is a journalist, writer, and translator. She writes essays, non-fiction, 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 (wt Sea Ice Melting While We Fall in Love), will be published by Aufbau Verlag in 2026. She is represented by Rauchzeichen.