ROTARY - STAND BY YOUR MAN
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Biography Rita Knijff-Pot lives and works in the region ‘Het Gooi’ near Hilversum in the Netherlands. She was born in Utrecht and was raised in the Limburg province in the South of the country. After her Bachelor education Clinical Chemistry and Microbiology she has worked at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Utrecht University. Her interest in visual arts brought her in balance with respect to emotion and intellect. She continued her education at the Rotterdam Art Academy: Graphic Art. Her work was exposed at art exhibitions in Amsterdam and Paris. Portrait drawing was taught to her by Maarten Krabbé in Amsterdam. She followed art painting workshops from Ingrid Schubert, Mark van Praagh and Herman Tjepkema. Next she exposed at exhibitions in Hilversum and Arnhem. Rita was contract student Art History at the Amsterdam University. Soon after she started to write about art, she chose to register for a short stories writing course at the Writer’s School (‘Schrijversvakschool’) in Amsterdam. There she was encouraged to follow their official program in order to develop the literary aspect of her writing. Which she did for two more years. Subsequently
she immersed herself in literary non-fiction at the Academy for Journalism in
Utrecht. She started to write columns for a nationwide website. This led to two
bundles ‘Stand By Your Man’ in June 2007 and ‘Stand By Your Man II, crossing borders’
in March 2010 and more publications in newspapers and on websites. After Stand By Your Man I and II, in 2013 STAND BY YOUR MAN was issued, an anthology in which besides the new third part 'The Board' also Part I and II are included.
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