Florence Tonk

(Wageningen, 1970) is a poet, translator and freelance journalist. She did American studies in the Netherlands and the US. She translated American poetry of among others Joel Brouwer. In 2002 she translated Permanent War and Permanent Peace, a collection of essays by Gore Vidal. Her volume of poetry Anders komen de wolven (Or Else the Wolves Will Come) appeared in April 2006. Earlier her poetry appeared in Awater, Parmentier, Bunker Hill and Hollands Maandblad.