Ursula Knoll, born in Vienna in 1981, received her doctorate in German Studies at the University of Vienna and trained as a playwright at the Burgtheater Vienna and the wiener wortstaetten. Longer research stays in Bishkek, Washington DC and Prague followed. Her plays have been published by Schultz&Schirm, Hartmann&Stauffacher and Kaiser Verlag.

In 2022, her debut novel “Lektionen in dunkler Materie” was published by Edition Atelier and won the Blogger Prize for Literature in 2023. This was followed in 2025 by the novel “Zucker”, which was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize. 2023 she received the LiterarMechana scholarship. In 2021 she was a fellow of the Tour des Textes (NIDS Berlin / Theatertexter*innen München / wiener wortstaetten). In 2010 she was a Raoul Hilberg PhD fellow at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, in 2009 she received the Thomas Bernhard Scholarship from the Landestheater Linz.