Ulrike Sievers was born in the North of Germany in 1959, into a family whose business was a tree nursery, thus combining her future interests in biology and pedagogy. She changed from studying medicine to training to be a teacher of biology and English. She raised three children and moved back into education. She taught her subjects at the Freie Waldorfschule Elmshorn for 20 years and is now a teacher and school leader at the Christian Morgenstern Schule, an inner-city school in Hamburg. She also works in teacher education at the Waldorf seminar in Hamburg. She enjoys creative writing, reading, travelling and being outside in the sun, wind and rain. She lives in Northern Germany.