Edith Pahlke was born in Berlin, Germany in 1936 and has spent her life as a traveller and artist, with a love for letters, language, art, and reading. After her studies in fine art printmaking and graphic design at Hamburg's Hochschule für bildende Künste, she lived in Iceland and eventually moved to Ottawa, Canada where she lived and worked for more than 40 years. She now resides in Nova Scotia to be close to her daughter and grandson.