Karen Peralta is a German-Mexican writer, a passionate traveller, specialist in international trade, public speaker, and mother. She was born in Mexico City in 1976, where she spent the first years of her life. She started writing as a student, mostly plays and speeches for public speaking contests. After completing a degree in International Relations in 2000, she followed a professional career in the commercial sector. Her love of languages, travel and culture led her to live in different countries on two continents, until in 2011 she fell in love with Hamburg, the city in which she currently resides.