Lin Van Hecke
LIN VAN HECKE (a.k.a. Lin Van Hek) Writer and performer. Co-founder of DIFFICULT WOMEN. Born and raised in Melbourne, she lived for many years in India and Belgium. She was the lead singer of the electro-dance band, SKIN THE WIG, in the 80s, and a song she co-wrote, with Joe Dolce, and recorded, INTIMACY, was part of the first TERMINATOR film in the US! She recorded a solo CD ‘River of Life,’ featuring songs of New Zealand writer, Kath Tait, and is featured on the GIRLZONE recordings, which were produced solely by women. She has published two novels: 'The Hanging Girl', and 'The Ballad of Siddy Church', with Spinifex Press, Melbourne, and has just completed her third, 'El Libro de Plata and the Difficult Women’s Notebook', and several books of short stories. She has had stories published in recent years in two additional Spinifex Press anthologies: 'Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women’s Lives', and 'Horse Dreams: The Meaning of Horses in Women’s Lives'. She is a previous winner of the Melbourne Age Short Story Contest. Lin is also a respected fashion designer, with her own label, LIN VAN HEK DESIGN, working in collaboration with women entrepreneurs, in the mountain villages of North Vietnam, travelling there many times a year.