Marieke Nijkamp

Marieke Nijkamp was raised in the Netherlands, born in Zwolle in 1986, and studied philosophy and medieval studies at Groningen before writing fiction in English. Nijkamp is autistic and non-binary, uses she, they and any pronouns, founded the writing community DiversifYA and served as a founding senior vice president of We Need Diverse Books. This Is Where It Ends, her debut, became a New York Times bestseller in 2016 and held a place on that list for sixty-seven weeks. Even If We Break, published in 2020, brings five friends from Stardust High to a family cabin in the Arizona mountains for a last session of the role-playing game that has kept them together, and the reunion goes badly wrong. Among them are an autistic girl whose sporting career ended in a car crash, a trans boy who walks with crutches because of arthritis, and a nonbinary teenager. Nijkamp also edited Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens (2018) and wrote The Oracle Code for DC Comics.