Katja Brandis
(born 1970), author, journalist
Katja Brandis is one of the pseudonyms of Sylvia Englert. She studied American studies, German and English. After an internship at a publishing company she worked as a journalist. Her first novel, Der Verrat der Feuer-Gilde (Treason of the Fire Guild) was published in 2002 as the first book of the teen fantasy trilogy Kampf um Daresh (Battle for Daresh). Before that she had already published a large number of non-fiction books under her real name. She has worked as a freelance author and editor since 2006 and lives near Munich.