Nikki Ness

Nikki Ness is the pseudonym of Anniken Bjørnes. She was born in 1972 and grew up in the countryside in Steinkjer, Norway. During high school, she spent one year as an exchange student in Topeka, Kansas, USA. Since then, she has studied to become a teacher and worked as one in Trondheim and Oslo, and she moved back to Steinkjer in 2003.

She lives there with her fiancé and two small boys, works as a high-school librarian, and writes fiction for children and teenagers.

Anniken has studied to be an author of books for children and teenagers at The Norwegian Institute for Children’s Books.

In 2010, she debuted with her book Sommerengel (Angelfly) with Omnipax Publishing. In 2012, she published a picture book for children called Ballong jegeren (The Balloon Hunter) with Magikon Publishing, illustrated by Mari Kanstad Johnsen.

She is now working on the second book about Gabriella, and is planning to write another two in the same series.

Besides these, she is also working on several other book ideas.

Anniken has traveled around the world, holds a motorcycle licence and has gone parachuting.

Her life motto is:

It’s better to have tried and failed

than never to have tried at all!