Mirjam Dikken was born and raised in the Netherlands. She has worked around the world through her jobs as a chemical engineer, recruiter, and HR manager, and lived in New Delhi, India, and Edmonton, Canada. As they love living below sea level, she and her family settled in the Hoeksche Waard again, an inland island in the Netherlands. She now does her wandering around in the darker places of her imagination to write thrillers and other fiction. Her stories have appeared in anthologies and on the beer cans of her favourite coffee stout.