Liliana Erasmus is a Dutch Caribbean writer who has lived in The Netherlands and is back on her island Aruba where she writes for children of all ages and young adults. Her newest publication, Zap! Zap! Zzziennng! (Aruba’s Children’s Book Festival Gift 2025) has been turned into an immersive, multi-purpose audiobook.

Her debut, the children’s poetry collection Rhymes Around Aruba is a local bestseller, and the start of Liliana’s career as an author (and illustrator) of children’s stories, poems, songs, radio and short plays in Papiamento, Dutch and English. In 2025 she received a grant from the Dutch Foundation for Literature to write a Caribbean novel for young adults.