Sissel-Jo Gazan

Sissel-Jo Gazan (born 20 December 1973, Aarhus[1]) is a Danish biologist and writer who gained wide recognition in 2008 for her novel Dinosaurens fjer, translated into English as The Dinosaur Feather.

She went on to study at the University of Copenhagen where she earned a Master of Science degree in biology, specializing in the origin of birds among the dinosaurs.

Her works sensitively address topics such as the development of one's identity, grief and love and insights into life and language.

[3] More recent works include Svalens Graft (2013), published in English as The Arc of the Swallow, another thriller covering problems resulting from the commercial interests of Danish immunology ressearch.

[2][7] This was followed in 2017 by Blækhat (Ink Cap) set in Aarhus in the 1980s, in 2020 by Hvide blomster (White Flowers) about a missing teenager on the island of Samsø,[8] and in 2022 by Uglens øje (The Owl's Eye), a follow-up to The Dinosaur Feather set in today's Denmark and again involving pharmaceuticals.