Born in 1960 in Lochem, the Netherlands, Irma Boom was the youngest of nine children. She attended the AKI Academy Art School to become a painter but that didn’t work out, as it was not what she envisioned. At school she was searching for another discipline and while wandering the school entered a class where a teacher was talking about books. The teacher, Abe Kuipers, recited poetry and texts from books he carried from Groningen to Enschede.
