About the Author

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Dorothe D. Kress was born and lived behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany for more than 40 years. Following a college degree in education, she worked as a teacher near Dresden, Germany for 22 years.

Her life changed forever when she fell in love with an American man in the mid-1980s. Three years later, after the couple decided to get married, the East German secret police turned her life upside down, and this became the main topic of some of her books and short stories.

She finally gained permission for marriage and emigrated to the United States in 1989, where she continued to teach. In 2003, she became a full-time writer and has published three books in German, two of which are available at the German National Library.

Her first book in English, “The Risk: Forbidden Love Behind the Iron Curtain,” has garnered awards and recognition. She won the Gold Award for Fiction from the Northern California Publishers and Authors and was a medal-winning finalist in the internationally acclaimed Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Historical Fiction. She has conducted many book presentations in Germany and the USA.

Dorothe is a passionate reader, gardener, and swimmer. She and her husband are enthusiastic photographers and hikers in the United States and Europe. Of course, writing is still her favorite activity, and she is currently working on the sequel of “The Risk.”

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