Lin Van Hek
Lin Van Hek (aka Lyn van Hecke, born Lyn Whitehead) is an Australian writer, singer, painter, dedigner and artist. She was a vice-president of the Society of Women Writers and co-founder of the literary-music group Difficult Women. Early life. Van Hek was born in Melbourne and lived in Europe and India while she was growing up. Career. Van Hek co-wrote and sang the song "Intimacy" for the film, "The Terminator". She later recorded a solo CD "River of Life" featuring songs of New Zealand writer, Kath Tait. More recently, she has performed with  her partner, Joe Dolce in Difficult Women, that began with a series of feminist literary salons van Hek held in the 1980s. She also worked for over two decades with a group of women in North Vietnam designing, manufacturing and trading in hand-embroidered silk garments and textiles with a focus on fair trade and worker ethics. She is a prolific painter and writer. She is described by Booker Prize-winning author Keri Hulme as writing "like an angel giving the devil her due."