Marente de Moor was born in 1972. Since 2009, she is a columnist for Vrij Nederland (VN). A collection of her columns in VN was published as Kleine vogel, grote man in 2013. Her fiction debut was the novel De overtreder in 2007. Her second novel De Nederlandse maagd was published in 2010 and won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 2011 and the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014. Her third novel Roundhay, tuinscène was published in 2013.