Ani Mrelashvili was born in 1995 in Tbilisi (Georgia), where she also grew up. Her writing has always been her main means of self-expression. She came to Germany to study when she was 18. At the FU Berlin she studied General and Comparative Literature. While she was a student she also worked on film sets and made a few short films herself. Since this winter semester she has now been studying directing at the Konrad Wolf Film University in Babelsberg.