Website: autorin-heikewolff
Country: Germany
Disease: CMT


The Leipzig-based author Heike Wolff lives out two literary passions: with her stories, she transports readers to distant worlds and other times.
After numerous publications in anthologies and magazines, her debut novel “The Fall of Phaistos” was published in December 2022 by AKRES Publishing. In 2024, her high-fantasy novel “Arowan and the Tower of Winds” followed at Legionarion.
In addition, she writes short texts that engage with the here and now. She can be found on Leipzig’s reading stages and runs the Open Reading Stage Delitzsch together with two friends who are passionate about literature. Her stories come to life alongside her work as a business economist in the energy industry. She earned her academic degrees through part-time studies, publishing two empirical studies with Igel Verlag and Diplomica Verlag. Heike Wolff has CMT, a neuromuscular disease. As a child, she experienced in her stories the adventures that real life denied her. Today, she writes to inspire and entertain people.
Every year, she travels to Greece with her husband. Crete and the Minoan culture particularly fascinate her and inspired her first novel.


It’s not about emphasizing one’s own limits, but about seeing the possibilities and seizing opportunities – regardless of physical limitations. Integration means being a natural part of the community, without disability, origin, or other differences taking center stage. Every person brings their own abilities and can find their path, sometimes by taking detours or with support. What matters is focusing on what is possible and having a fundamental trust that ways can be found.

Photography by Katrin Lantzsch