Moosje M Goosen is a writer and researcher based in Rotterdam. Since being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease in 2013, which led to a bilateral lung transplant in 2017, her relationship with work has shifted. Ongoing care for her body and donor lungs, along with an unpredictable post-transplant health condition, has made Moosje more ambivalent about defining herself solely through work. Writing and reading are part of her daily routine, often done without the notion of "work" attached. For her, writing is a way to engage with the raw texture of life and is her primary method of thinking, whether in analytical, experimental prose, or poetry. Moosje’s work moves fluidly between disciplines, from literature to art, between writing genres, and between academic and artistic research. Ultimately, she is most interested in the many forms and lives of language—the “spark of being” (as Mary Shelley wrote in Frankenstein) brought to life through writing.