Storytelling is the common thread in everything I do. For as long as I can remember, I have loved creating stories. I have always adored fantasy and science fiction, and in my teenage years I developed a great love for literature. 

I decided to dedicate myself entirely to writing after graduating secondary school. During my Creative Writing bachelor’s at ArtEZ I specialised in speculative fiction and worldbuilding, as well as screenwriting and transmedia storytelling. I graduated with a thesis and podcast on narrative design, and a short story and video game about a medical robot and his youngest patient, which was shortlisted for De Afstudeerprijs in 2023.

Kleinbot is play on my last name, "Kleinbussink", and was first used as a pseudonym under which I developed video games. Nowadays, it acts as a catch-all for all of my professional creative endeavours, most notably narrative design,  game design and (game)writing.

Image by Carla Sanfratello Marco.