Leon Engler grew up in Munich and studied theatre, film, media, cultural studies, and psychology in Vienna, Paris, and Berlin. He has published numerous theatre plays, radio plays, and short stories and was awarded the 3sat Prize at the Bachmann Competition in 2022. He works as an author, psychologist, and lecturer in psychology and literary writing. Botany of Madness is his debut novel.

Alexandra Roesch is a bicultural, bilingual freelance translator based in Frankfurt, Germany. An experienced translator of fiction and nonfiction, she has an MA in translation from the University of Bristol and was longlisted for the 2018 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize.