Usch Luhn was born in a small village in Austria in 1959. She studied German and journalism in Berlin and then spent quite a long time working for radio and children's television before starting to tell her own stories. She now lives as a writer partly in Berlin and partly on the North Sea. She teaches at a film academy, sometimes writes film scripts and has thought up stories for over fifty books for children and young adults that she loves presenting to the public on reading tours.