Anne-Sophie Balzer is a queer journalist, poet, and PhD candidate in the Environmental Humanities at Augsburg University, Germany. Having lived both in “ghosts of glaciers“ (landscapes formed by retreating ice) in Germany, the UK and Norway, and in close proximity to ice sheets up North, she seeks to turn her long-year fascination with icy landscapes into a research project. “Writing with Glaciers,” her PhD thesis, is an inquiry into ecopoetics with a focus on glaciers in contemporary North American poetries. In her own poetry she often inquires relations between humans and other than human beings, like various bodies of water; those we swim in and those we are ourselves. Her poems have appeared in Amber Flora Magazine, Plant-Human Quarterly and elsewhere, and she is a regular contributor to the German National Public Radio.