Özlem Özgül Dündar was born in 1983 in Solingen. She writes poetry, prose, essays and performs with “Kanak Attak Leipzig” as well as the “Ministerium für Mitgefühl”. She is also active as a publisher and translator. She won the 2015 Retzhof Drama Prize. She was awarded the Kelag Prize at the Klagenfurt literary festival as well as the 2018 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Scholarship. Her volume of poetry gedanken zerren (2018) was published by Elif Verlag.

Her play Mädchenschrift was awarded the Dutch-German youth dramatist's prize Kaas & Kappes in 2023