Annamaria Olsson

is a Swedish activist and writer, living in Berlin since 2008. Initially working as a freelance correspondent from both Germany and Brazil for Swedish periodicals, her first book, "My Berlin," a personal guidebook to the city, was published in 2014. She also is the founder of the social integration platform Give Something Back To Berlin, an internationally acclaimed best practice project awarded with prizes from bodies such as the United Nations and the Berlin municipal government. Her short stories have been published in Swedish, German, and now English, and writing a creative non-fiction book concerning those whose destinies have been shaped by borders and migration, interweaving the history of Germany and Berlin with current events and global migration, demonstrating similarities and historical overlap.