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 was very well received by the press. Posthuma studied Literary Studies, after which she began working as a journalist, doing long features for De Groene Amsterdammer, nrc.next and de Volkskrant, amongst others. Her short stories appeared in De Revisor, Das Magazin, Hollands Maandblad and De Gids.