Nina Lykke (1965) is a Norwegian writer. Her first book, The Orgy and Other Stories, was nominated for the Young Readers’ Critics’ Prize. Her novel Disintegration, which followed in 2013, had brilliant reviews and was shortlisted for the P2 Listeners’ Novel Prize. In 2014, Lykke was awarded the Booksellers’ Author Grant. B. L. Crook is a writer and literary translator. In 2010, she founded SAND , an English literary journal, in Berlin. She led creative writing workshops in the Netherlands for two years before returning to the United States. She lives with her family on an island near Seattle.
