Antonia Michaelis was born in North Germany. She spent the first two years of her childhood in a tiny village on the Baltic seaside. Later on she moved to South Germany and spent her childhood and adolescence surrounded by her crazy-likeable parents and various cats. She started writing stories at a very young age. After finishing school Antonia Michaelis left Germany and moved to South India for a year. She worked in a school near Madras as a teacher for English, arts, and acting. Various journeys took her to Turkey, Italy, Greece, Syria and the UK.