As an undergraduate at Barnard College, Columbia University, Kieren van den Blink received a Ford Foundation Grant to write her first book, Mighty Forces Are Gathering On Your Behalf, as well as a poetry award from Ireland's Poet Laureate, Seamus Heaney. She landed her Broadway debut within a year, co-starring with Natalie Portman in the Tony-nominated revival of The Diary of Anne Frank. She then moved to Los Angeles where she landed the role of Rogue in the highly-anticipated animated series, Wolverine & The X-Men. Next she founded her own theater company, The Little Beast, which culminated in NBC flying her to New York City to test for Saturday Night Live! She had a beloved column in The Los Angles Times Magazine called Sounds of the City. Last year, she published SNIFF, the first in a five book series of children's books based on the senses. She's been touring the country reading SNIFF in bookstores, museums, and schools. She is currently preparing to star in her self-scripted movie, MINE, a coming of age story about a woman in her 30's, which was a finalist for the Sundance Screenwriter's Lab. Kieren lives in Los Angeles with her beloved doggie, Gatsby.