Monika Schoppenhorst was born in Berlin in 1958 and is still living there. She first worked as a bank clerk, then as a teacher and is now retired. In the age of sixteen she started writing stories and turned towards this in a serious manner in 1990. The first draft of the novel "Lewis' Wölfe" was completed in 1998 and printed in small numbers for friends and family. Now it is edited and being published to gain more attraction. Furthermore „Großstadtvampire – Schicksalhafte Begegnungen“ will be published at the same time, the first volume of a series of vampire stories.

2013 she began to publish short stories on the Self Publisher Platform Bookrix. (Http://www.bookrix.de/-moscho). Her short thriller "nightmare in Poland" has been downloaded 1,300 times so far. In two anthologies that are published by Gitta Rübsaat, two of her stories have been published: "water love" in the book "Unleashed Nature - Together against the tide" (2013) and "A mobile phone for great-grandfather" in "A Light in the Darkness - Dec Stories "(2014).

In addition, she has worked as an illustrator for friends and contributed drawings for three books of the net publishing house.