Verena Mahlow

Born in a small German town above the Rhine river, Verena was always the first one on the trains to adventure in the great wide world. Besides traveling, she loves languages, reading and writing and graduated with an MA and PhD in German, American and Italian studies. She work(ed) as a journalist, writer, translator and interpreter and lived part of many years on the Spanish island of Ibiza. After some stints in academic Ivory towers, she got a training as scriptwriter and wrote a large number of scripts for TV-movies. Besides many articles, essays and short stories, her first novel was published and awarded 1st prize of a literary competition for female writers in Germany. Since 2011, she has been living on both sides of the Big Pond; in Mainz on the Rhine and in Dallas, TX. Her first short story in the English language, "Goodbye, Shoes,“ was published in January 2021, and now she is thrilled to announce her second novel — her first one in English, — titled "Island of Dead Gods.“

(see website: verenamahlow.com)