Floris M. Kleijne was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he began to write short stories as soon as he was able to hold a pen. After hundreds of Dutch stories he switched over to the English language in 2003, promptly sold his first story in that language, and went on to win the acclaimed Writers of the Future contest with his third, the SF novelette Meeting the Sculptor (published in Writers of the Future Vol.XXI). Since then he has sold ten more stories, judged the Paul Harland Prize (the Dutch equivalent of the Writers of the Future) twice, edited a Dutch anthology of speculative fiction (Millennium). He is also struggling with fitting writing a novel into his busy life. Kleijne still lives in Amsterdam, with a lovely wife, two cheerful sons, a grumpy cat, and thousands of books.