Lin Van Hek

Who is Lin Van Hek?

Lin Van Hek is an Australian writer, member of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of a literary-music group called Difficult Women.

Van Hek was born in Melbourne residing in Europe and India for some years. She is an advocate of handmade houses and also lives half the year in a stone house on the Brass Knocker Creek near the Wadbilliga River and state forest in the southeastern corner of New South Wales.

Van Hek is a singer, songwriter, novelist, poet and a painter. She co-wrote and sang the song Intimacy which was part of the first The Terminator film one of 25 movies listed for preservation, along with The Asphalt Jungle, Deliverance, The Invisible Man and In Cold Blood, for cultural, historic and aesthetic significance, by the US Library of Congress. She recorded a solo CD River of Life featuring songs of New Zealand writer, Kath Tait.

Lin Van Hek has worked for over two decades with a group of women in North Vietnam designing, manufacturing and trading in ethical, non-exploitative hand-embroidered silk garments and textiles.

She has been gaining recognition in the past two years for her expressive painting style.