Caren Jeß, born in Eckernförde in 1985, studied German philology and modern German literature in Freiburg i.Br. and Berlin. She first appeared as a playwright in 2017, when she came third in the Osnabrücker Dramatikerpreises with her play Deine Mutter oder Der Schrei der Möwe. In 2018, she won the residency of the Münchner Förderpreises für deutschsprachige Dramatik with Bookpink. With the Graz premiere production of Bookpink, she was nominated for the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreise in 2020 and named Young Dramatist of the Year. The year before, she also won the  Else-Lasker-Schüler-Stückepreis for her play Der Popper and the taz audience jury prize at the 26th open mike for Die Ballade von Schloss Blutenburg. In 2023, she won the  Mülheimer Dramatikpreis and the Mülheimer Theatertage Audience Award for her play Die Katze Eleonore in the Staatsschauspiel Dresden production. Caren Jeß lives in Dresden.