Vrouwkje Tuinman

(Den Bosch, 1974) studied general literature and music and has been a freelance journalist and reviewer since 1997. She made her debut in 2004 with the volume of poetry Vitrine (Display Case). Followed in 2005 by her novel Grote acht (Big Eight). She organizes literary events, writes columns, publishes anthologies and performs regularly at festivals and literary evenings. Vrouwkje Tuinman won the Hollands Maandblad poetry scholarship 2003-2004 and was nominated for the Libra Prize and the Debutantenprijs. Right now she is working on short stories and at a new volume of poetry, Reception (Receptie), which will appear in January 2007. She is a columnist for Zone030 and the talkshow Cafe Z, teaches creative writing (both prose and poetry) among others in the Trouw writing course 'Write!', at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht and the Hogeschool Utrecht.