Ester Naomi Perquin (1980) lives in Rotterdam. She has worked as a prison guard for several years, paying for her creative writing studies in Amsterdam. Her three poetry collections Servetten halfstok (2007), Namens de ander (2009), and Celinspecties (2012) have been very well received, and awarded a number of literary prizes. In 2017-2018, she was Dichter der Nederlanden, the official Dutch Poet Laureate.
