Nelden Djakababa Gericke is a Berlin-based Indonesian-Filipina fiction writer, crafter, and trained-psychologist. With extensive experience in trauma-and-community-work in Indonesia, Nelden was a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Nowadays, she design focused-workshops with the elements of jewelry-crafting, psychology, and writing. She contributes as a freelancer for Tempo Magazine Indonesia, and was part of the core editorial team for a recently published edition of online magazine Südostasien. Nelden is one of the selected recipients of the Literature-Stipend for Writers Writing in Non-German Languages (2025), awarded by the City of Berlin through the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.
