Anne-Sophie Balzer is a journalist, writer, translator, and admirer of all things wild. She writes essays, literary reviews, features, poetry, and a PhD thesis titled “Writing with Glaciers”. Anne-Sophie received a BA in Comparative Literature from Erfurt University and holds an MA in Cultural Theory and History from Humboldt University of Berlin. She is employed at Augsburg University as a member of the Graduate School (Re)thinking Environment and recipient of a Fulbright.
Her work as a journalist appears in German publications, among them DIE ZEIT and ZEIT ONLINE, Berliner Zeitung and Tageszeitung. She is an occasional contributor to the national public radio DLF Kultur. Poems and translations of hers have appeared in Amberflora, Plant-Human Quarterly, Maiden Magazine, Blood Orange Review, and elsewhere.
Her debut non-fiction book Das Meereis schmilzt während wir uns verlieben (Aufbau Verlag) is scheduled for publishing in the summer 2026.