Biography

Stefan Bachmann is a Swiss-American author of books and short stories. He was born in Colorado and spent most of his childhood in Switzerland, where he graduated from the Zürich University of Arts with degrees in music composition and theory. His debut, The Peculiar, was published to international acclaim when he was nineteen years old.

His work has gone on to be named a Publishers Weekly’s best book of the year, a VOYA Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award finalist, and a CYBILS Award finalist, among others. In 2017, he was chosen for the Aarhus 39, a selection of the best writers under 40 in Europe, presented at the International Hay Festival in Denmark. He has written for radio, film, opera, magazines and newspapers, and his work has been published in sixteen countries.

Stefan’s love of stories also lead him to work in the field of literacy and reading development. He is the co-founder of the Zürich-based non-profit Foundations in Literacy, the current co-president of Autillus - Swiss association of children’s authors and illustrators, and teaches creative writing at the Junges Literaturlabor in Zürich.

After stints in Berlin, Prague, and Tokyo, he currently lives and writes in a small town on the Dutch border, at the foot of a medieval castle, surrounded by books and plants.