Martin Bieri (1977) lives and works in Bern. He studied theater and history of art, and holds a PhD in Contemporary Theater and Landscape Theory. He is a writer, playwright and journalist, working in both Germany and Switzerland. He has published many scientific abstracts and articles and writes about art and football for various daily newspapers, including the Keystone-SDA news agency. His poetry won the 2016 Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern and the 2017 Literature Prize of the City of Bern.