Anke van Oostveen

(1978, she/her) is a young writer. Until recently, she thought that the other person was the writer. In her writing, she questions the reliability of memories. She considers them a form of time experience and explores how we can never see ourselves as others see us. She finds it both pleasant and difficult that we exist in different versions of ourselves. In another life, she is a registrar, volunteers at a hospice and helps people with their work. She worked for a while at an onion-cutting factory in The Hague and yes, onions make her cry. In 2026, her poems will be published in the collection Omhoog slaan by the young poets' collective FFÛH in The Hague.