Bergstra, Sjoerd

At 33 years old, Netherlands-born Sjoerd Bergstra combines a vast range of experiences with depth of imagination in his writing. Having lived in four continents, he has worked as an outdoor trainer in Germany; waiter in an Indian restaurant; translator; tour-guide at a zoo for Kiwi birds; civil servant; care-taker at a center for severely mentally disabled people in New Zealand; data-entry specialist; care-taker of juvenile convicts in the backwoods of Arizona; and, most recently before writing full-time, as a licensed high school English teacher. Although he now writes and lives in Amsterdam,...