Barbi Markovic was born in Belgrade in 1980 and has lived in Vienna since 2006. In 2009, Markovic caused a sensation with the Thomas Bernhard remix novel Ausgehen. In 2016, she published the novel Superheldinnen, for which she received the Alpha Literature Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize and the Priessnitz Prize. In 2024, Barbi Markovic received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Minihorror and the Carl Amery Literature Prize for her literary work.