Aukje-Tjitske Dieleman-Hovinga (1984) hails from the Bildt region (Nij-Altoenae) and as a child lived in Warten for six years where she learned Frisian. When she was twelve, she returned to the Bildt for a few years before moving outside of Fryslân on her seventeenth. She has always been keenly interested in language and literature. She started writing poems when she was fourteen and worked as a freelance copywriter for a long time. Currently she works parttime at a company that develops apps for people who are not (always) able to talk.
Alongside of her job she writes poetry and prose, in Frisian, Dutch and sometimes English. She is president of the poetical society Dichtersgilde Terneuzen, regularly performs her poetry on stage and won the Maerlant Poetry Prize in 2024 with her poem ‘Definitive.’ You can read the poem here.
Previously she wrote the poetry collection Jouw landschap adem ik (2012) and her second collection Geosmine was published in November of 2025.