Allison Hazel Brugger was born on 9 December 1993 in San Diego, California. She grew up in Dielsdorf, near Zürich and has two older brothers. After graduating in Bülach, she began studying philosophy and literature at the University of Zurich, but she eventually quit. When she was 17, she started her poetry slam career in Winterthur, Switzerland northeast of Zürich. From 2014 and 2017, Brugger wrote a fortnightly column for Das Magazin, a Swiss daily newspaper. Read more on