Elianne van Elderen

(1997) graduated in Creative Writing from ArtEZ with the collection Geef geen namen aan koeien die je van plan bent te slachten (Don't Name Cows That You Plan to Slaughter). The volume consists of poems, fragments, short stories, catalogues, route descriptions and lists. While she mainly writes poetry and short stories (about children who murder their guinea pigs, glow-in-the-dark minigolf courses, the time she tried to draw Stephen Hawking on someone's plaster cast, and bike rides along the meat-processing plant in her native village in Brabant), she also experiments with combining text, image and other art forms. She researched whether it is possible to teach yourself to be obsessive, for which she spent 80 hours embroidering a text on a tent, resulting in an art installation that was exhibited at a poetry event. She also regularly appears on (literary) stages at festivals and events throughout the Netherlands. In 2020 she came in second in Write Now! and third in De (Turing) Poetry Contest.