Biografie

Tirsa With

Tirsa With a growth marketer by day and an oral storyteller by night. She is a poet, (voice) actress and literary translator. Her fascination with all things audio and spoken word is rooted in her Maroon Surinamese heritage. In her thesis research into their oral storytelling traditions, she argued that unlike Western literary theorists proclaimed, this too is literature. In 2020 she graduated cum laude from Amsterdam University College, majoring in literary and cultural studies. She then went on to the Slow Writing Lab fellowship by the Dutch literary fund for creative writing graduates. Her short story “Schrammen voel je tenminste” was published in the internationally acclaimed anthology de Goede Immigrant by Uitgeverij Pluim. With translated and narrated Brown Girl Dreaming, the poetic memoir by award winning novelist Jacqueline Woodson. With is currently employed as a Growth Hacking Trainee at Bookit via the Talent Institute. She also offers support to fellow spoken word artist Zaïre Krieger in the translation of Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem and anthology.