Paula Köhlmeier was an Austrian writer of stories, screenplays, and novels.
Köhlmeier studied film in Vienna and received the Literary Fellowship of the State of Vorarlberg in 2002 before she tragically passed away during a hiking trip in summer 2003.
After her death, her parents, Michael Köhlmeier and Monika Helfer, both well-established Austrian writers, compiled forty-seven of her short stories in Maramba.