Margrit Dahm grew up in Germany, spent her early adult life in Hong Kong, and then moved to London where she studied for her master's degree. She began writing poetry as a student and published two books of German poetry. Her later discovery of meditation inspired her poetry in English and two of her books being published. She has also published her autobiography. ‘The Lockdown Diaries' was written during the long weeks and months of the COVID-19 crisis.