Ingmar Heytze

(Netherlands, 1970) is a poet, performer and writer. He has written almost twenty volumes of poetry and his work can be found in public, specifically in the streets of Utrecht. Between 2009 and 2011 he served as poet laureate of Utrecht. He has always been closely associated with literary events and festivals in that city, including the Night of Poetry, and participates in a foundation that writes poems for the funerals of people who have no family. Heytze won the 2008 C.C.S. Crone Prize, the literary prize of the City of Utrecht, for his oeuvre, as well as the 2016 Maartenspenning cultural distinction award of the same city. He writes for various Dutch publications as a columnist and journalist.