Born in 1989, Bettina Wilpert grew up near Altötting in Upper Bavaria. She studied Cultural Studies, English, and Literary Writing in Potsdam, Berlin, and Leipzig and was, among other things, a finalist of the 23rd Open Mike and a scholarship holder of the 20th Klagenfurt Literature Course. In February 2018, the Verbrecher Verlag in Berlin published her debut novel Nichts, was uns passiert (Nothing that Happens to Us), which was awarded numerous literary prizes. Among others, Wilpert received the ZDF "aspekte" literature prize for the best literary debut of 2018 and was awarded the Kranichsteiner Youth Literature Scholarship 2019. In addition, the book was adapted for the stage by the Stadttheater Gießen. She lives in Leipzig, where she teaches German as a foreign language.