Kathrin Klingner, born in 1979, is a comic author and lives with her family in Hamburg. She studied free art in Amsterdam and illustration in Hamburg. She teaches graphic storytelling and gives comic workshops for young people. After her comic debut "Katze hasst Welt", "Über Spanien lacht die Sonne" was published in 2020 by Reprodukt, which won the GINCO Award in the category "Best Long Comic" in 2021.