Treur grew up in a strict Reformed Christian farming family in her Zeelandic birthplace of Meliskerke.

[4] In 2006, Treur won an essay competition, themed 'Macht en onmacht' ('Power and powerlessness') commissioned by Contrast Magazine and nrc.next, with her piece Maak iets van je leven!

It is a psychological novel about a girl that grows up in Zeeland in a deeply religious farming family in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Because of the topic and her background, her style is often compared to writers such as Jan Siebelink and Maarten 't Hart, who, like her, have broken away from the strict Reformed milieu in which they were raised.

[7] Dorsvloer vol confetti was nominated several times,[8] including for the AKO Literatuurprijs (longlist) and the NS Publieksprijs.