Margreet Dietz was born in the Netherlands in 1970. A professional journalist since 1996, she reported for Bloomberg News from Brussels, Toronto and Sydney, and worked as a copy-editor at The Australian Financial Review in Sydney and at The Vancouver Sun. Her articles on business and finance have been published in newspapers worldwide, while her features on running and triathlon have appeared in endurance sports magazines in Australia and Canada since 2006. She is the author of four non-fiction books, Running Shoes Are a Girl's Best Friend, Powered From Within: Stories About Running & Triathlon, A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km and A Work in Progress: Exercises in Writing, and a book of… poetry, Sunshine on a wooden floor.