As a child, I wanted to grow up to be three things: a ballerina, a farmer, and a writer. Many years and five published novels later, I think that one out of those three isn't bad. Amongst my earliest memories is crayoning by the kitchen table and making up stories about the drawings, and I've been doing that ever since. Yet it was decades before I had enough to courage to pursue it professionally; when I finally did, it was burnout from stress and childhood abuse that tipped the scale.

At university, I studied art and philosophy mainly, but also film, literature, physics, and logic. I tried many different professions: teacher, project manager, care assistant, library assistant; I've been a cabbie and (briefly) a prison guard. I pursued a career in politics and was elected for public office. But, whilst many of these roles were rewarding, great privileges even, they were never a perfect fit. I treasure all of these experiences as they make me better at what I was meant to do - tell stories.

Born and raised in rural Sweden, rambles through fields and forests shaped me and continue to influence all my work: animals and plants are ever present. Whether images or words, I immerse myself wholly in my work. There's a story behind every brush stroke, an image behind every word, although only a small fraction ever gets processed enough to share with others. The majority of my stories are written in English and , most commonly, in genres of historical fiction, contemporary romance, or short stories inspired by Scandinavian mythology and folklore.

Being a life-long history buff, I like to fancy myself a bit of an amateur historian and digging through archives and chasing facts for my novels is precisely my idea of a good time. Luckily, I also enjoy dancing, else I might never have met my husband. We live in the southern tip of the Scandinavian peninsula where, in the words of Voltaire, we cultivate our garden.