Daniela Seel was born in Frankfurt/Main in 1974 and lives in Berlin. In 2003 he founded kookbooks publications. Her poems have been published in magazines, newspapers, anthologies and on the internet and radio, including FAZ, Lyrik von Jetzt (DuMont 2003) and Jahrbuch der Lyrik (Fischer 2009). Her first book of poems ich kann diese stelle nicht wiederfinden (2011) was awarded the Friedrich-Hölderlin Achievment Award.