Kira Wuck (1978) grew up in Amsterdam, but feels at home at the absurdity and melancholy of the Nordic countries. She studied art education and did the Writer’s School in Amsterdam. She won the national poetry slam championship of the Netherlands (2012). And for her debut collection of poems, Finnish girls, she got the Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt-price 2013. An incentive award which is awarded every year. She also got the Jo Peters poetry prize for best debut and got nominated for the C.Buddingh’ prize. Her collection of short stories Emergency landing (2016) got nominated for the J.M.A. Biesheuvelprijs for best collection of stories 2016. Some stories were also published in Germany and London in literary magazines. In 2018 her second collection of poems The sea is hungry got published. Her collections of poems were also published in Italy, Germany and Buenos Aires. She also wrote a novel ‘The Marbleking’ in 2021 and in 2022 a performance for adults and children that came to theatres in the Netherlands.