Caroline Wahl was born in Mainz in 1995, grew up in a village in Baden-Württemberg, and studied German in Tübingen and Modern German Literature in Berlin. She worked for several publishing houses. In 2023, her first novel, the Spiegel bestseller 22 Bahnen, was published by DuMont, for which she was awarded the Ulla Hahn Authors' Prize and the Grimmelshausen Sponsorship Prize. Caroline Wahl lives in Rostock.