In 2000, Simone Ungerer completed her degree in American Studies and French, with a focus on Cultural Studies. After three years as Junior PM in a publishing house for children's and teenagers’ magazines and as a freelance writer, she accepted an administrative job at the Department of Philosophy. Moreover, she has been working as a freelance translator for scientific as well as literary texts. She lives in Kreuzberg with her nine-year-old daughter Kaia.