Anja Zeidler-van Oudheusden lives in Northern Germany near Hamburg and works in the medical device industry. She has studied English, Canadian and American Literatures and Cultures and Latin America Studies at the Universities of Hamburg, Augsburg and Manitoba, Winnipeg. She was a contributor to the 2007 Paper Empire. William Gaddis and the World System (eds, Shavers and Tabbi) and has long been a member of and significant contributor to Victoria Harding’s Gaddis Annotations and Thomas Bernhard sites with material, essays and the involvement of German Gaddis translators and artists on both websites.