Bette Adriaanse is a writer and an artist. She was born in Amsterdam in 1984. Bette graduated from the Image & Language department at the Gerrit Rietveld Fine Art Academy in Amsterdam in 2008 and has received her Master in Creative Writing from Oxford University in 2010. Her first novel Rus Like Everyone Else was published in the US and the UK in 2016. The novel appeared as Post Voor Rus Ordelman in the Netherlands. Her second novel, What’s Mine, will be published by Unnamed Press in August 2023. It will appear as Wat Van Mij Is in the Netherlands, with Uitgeverij Cossee. Bette writes in English and in Dutch.