She was born in the city of Drammen, Norway, in 1963. She has been studying Art History, Philosophy and Social Work at the University of Umeå and the University of Linköping, Sweden. She started writing in the early 90ties in Norwegian, but has since then also been writing poetry in Swedish and in English. During a few years she was part of the poetry group Jordens Poeter (The Poets of the Earth) which arranged Open Stages for poetry in Stockholm. Ninni Andersen has so far been self-published on the Internet at http://www.writers-network.com/index.cgi?m=1&do=profile&who=15886 and at https://www.poeter.se/Medlem?writerId=30322