Jente Posthuma (1974) wrote her debut novel People without Appearance in 2016, which was nominated for the Dioraphte Literature Prize, the Hebban Debutprize and the ANV Debutprize and had a great reception from the press. Posthuma studied Literary Studies, after which she began working as a journalist, doing extensive features for De Groene Amsterdammer, NRC and de Volkskrant, amongst others. Her short stories appeared in De Revisor, Das Magazin, Hollands Maandblad and De Gids.