Johanna Geels, born in 1968, lives in Apeldoorn, Netherlands and has been writing poetry for three years. She consistently performs at Poetry Slams and has won a number of them in the past. Up until now, her work has been published in poetry-magazines ("Op ruwe planken" and "Krakatau") and in anthologies, for example in the Dutch "De Volksverheffing".

The HALMA grant for Johanna Geels was made possible by the Fonds voor de Letteren.

The author's own website can be visited here.

Photo: © by C.T. van der Waal