Ingo Schulze, born in Dresden in 1962, studied classical philology at the University of Jena. He worked as the dramaturg at the Altenburg Theater until 1990, and then became a newspaper editor, a job that took him to St. Petersburg for six months in 1993. Since then he has lived in Berlin. His first book, 33 Moments of Happiness has won both the prestigious Doblin Prize and the Willner Prize for Literature. Three of the stories in this collection have recently appeared in The New Yorker.

Ingo's story 'Calcutta' appears in Elsewhere.