Rikke Kirchheiner (full name: Rikke Maria Kirchheiner), was born in 1969 and raised in Aalborg, Jutland, Denmark. She is an MA in literature and English from the Aalborg University of Southern Denmark. She has experience as an assistant in a bookstore. She is an examined proofreader from the Danish Proofreading Education. She has worked as an editor, translator and salesperson at various publisher, as well as freelance proofreader at, among others Gyldendal and Forlaget Ajour. Rikke Kirchheiner has a great interest in all poetry and fiction — new or republished. She has published the book: ”Going Quietly With the Reality” in Danish.