Vanessa Guinan-Bank works as a bilingual freelance journalist based in Berlin. As a news assistant for the Berlin Bureau of the Washington Post, she covers news in Germany and Europe, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. She also writes and produces on arts and culture for various German media outlets and radio stations and interviews prominent German novelists in a podcast. She grew up in Germany and has lived in Latin America and a number of Middle Eastern countries.