Anne-Lene Bleken (b. 1966) is an author, a teacher and the owner of two pulishing companies, one in Norway and one in Denmark. Apart from writing and publishing books, ebooks and audiobooks, she teaches courses in Writing for Children. Bleken comes from Lillehammer in Norway, with strong roots in the Western part of the country where her mother's family comes from. She has lived in Aarhus in Denmark since 1989, where she has an MA in English and Media and used to work as a high school teacher before she published her first novel, Olava, in 2012, and the sequel, Anna Veronica, in 2020. Bleken is also the author of Tulle, Trulle, Mulle and the Humans, The Mollimi People from Deep Space, The Donkey, Two Short Stories, Wild and Wondrous Stories from the Waterfront, Stories for Sillyheads and Other People and the series about Miss Susie with the Magical Sunglasses.