Brittani Sonnenberg’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The O’Henry Prize Stories
2008, Asymptote, Ploughshares, Time Magazine, and elsewhere. Sonnenberg has written three other pieces for previous seasons of Berlin Stories for NPR. To hear them, please
click here, here, and here. She studied English literature at Harvard University, received her fiction MFA from the University of Michigan and was a European Journalism Fellow at the Freie Universität from 2009-2010. She has taught creative writing at the University of Michigan
and Carleton College, and currently serves as a visiting lecturer and thesis adviser at the University of Hong Kong’s MFA program. Her first novel, Home Leave, is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing next year in the United States, and Arche Verlag in Germany.