Daan Katz was born in 1963 in The Hague, the Netherlands, where he also spent the first fifteen years of his life.

From a very young age, Daan has been enchanted by stories. When immersed in his books, Daan would forget everything else. The real world would cease to exist, and there was only the imaginary world, with his imaginary friends, who would continue to speak to him long after he’d finished reading the book.

Given his love for stories, it was only natural for him to start writing his own as soon as he realised that he could. From there, poetry was a logical next step.

As for Daan’s private life, that is just that. Private.