Annemarie Estor studied the new interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Program at Maastricht University from 1991 to 1996, where she specialised in the intersection of art and science. From 1996 to 2000, she conducted doctoral research in the field of 'science and literature studies' at the Department of English at Leiden University, supervised by Prof. dr. Theo D'haen. She pursued postdoctoral education at the Research School for Literary Studies and at the International School for Theory in the Humanities (Santiago de Compostela, with Wolfgang Iser, Frederick Turner, William Paulson, Mihai Spariosu, and Giuseppe Mazzotta). She defended her dissertation, 'Jeanette Winterson's Enchanted Science', in 2004. Between 2004 and 2026, she published 10 books of poetry and started working as an editor (in Dutch) for non-fiction authors, researchers, and policymakers. In 2026, she began new postdoctoral research at Ghent University (supervised by Prof. dr. Lars Bernaerts) into 'Violence in the work of female poets (1900-2025)'. She teaches poetry/creative writing at Schrijversacademie Antwerpen.
