Marion Rana studied British and American Studies, Pedagogy and Political Science at the University of Mainz as well as Creative Writing in Chichester (UK). At the moment, she is working on her Ph.D.-thesis about gender roles and ideology in contemporary children's literature. She is the publisher of interjuli - Internationale Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung, an interdisciplinary magazine for international studies in children's and young adults' literature.