Barbara Yelin, born in 1977 in Munich, studied illustration at the HAW Hamburg. Her multi-award-winning oeuvre includes graphic novels, web comics, comic strips, illustrations for daily newspapers, magazines and children's books. Her work is regularly presented in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad. 
A selection of her publications: First German-language, comprehensive comic "Gift" (Reprodukt 2010, scenario: P. Meter), "Irmina" (Reprodukt, 2014), "Channa Maron" (Reprodukt, 2016).

In 2016, Barbara Yelin was awarded the Max und Moritz award for "Best German-language Comic Artist". For "Jan Bazuin - Diary of a Forced Laborer", she contributed more than 40 illustrations on behalf of the NS Documentation Centre Munich and in collaboration with the historian Paul-Moritz Rabe (C.H.Beck Verlag). In 2019, she started working on a graphic novel project about the biography of Jewish Holocaust survivor Emmie Arbel. "But I Live" was published in summer 2022 in an anthology, in English by University of Toronto Press/New Jewish Press, in German by C.H.Beck Verlag. With "Emmie Arbel. The Color of Memory" was published in 2023, a work that tells exclusively of Emmie Arbel's memories.