I am a Swedish picture book author and illustrator, living and working in New Haven, CT.

As an artist and writer I love to explore the awkward and poetic beauty in life, and I don’t shy away from more difficult subjects.

Watercolor and colored pencils are my main medium, but I also make occasional ink drawings, graphite drawings, and small sculptures in paper clay.

For trade publishing inquiries, please contact Mona Kanin of In Concert LITERARY (mona@mkaninliterary.com)

Links to clients, collaborators, and projects:

Guernica Magazine: Girl Gang of Pacific Avenue

Guernica Magazine: Carrot Legs

Artist Fellowship Grant 2020

Art of Black Dissent

Raw Perceptions ><Body Life

Awards:

- Winner of the Tassy Walden Award: New Voices in Children’s Literature for Best Illustrated Picture Book: Writer/ Illustrator for the book proposal What is a memory?, 2020

- Artist Fellowship Grant from the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD)/ CT Office of the Arts (COA), 2020

- CT Office of the Arts Regional Initiative Grant 2016 forThe Art of Black Dissent

- Artist Fellowship Grant from the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD)/ CT Office of the Arts (COA), 2012

- Writer’s Grant from the Anglo Swedish Literary Foundation, London, UK, 2007

-Nordplus Diploma Grant in Nordic Philology, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 1999

Plays:

- HOLES at the Roundchappel Gallery, Hackney, London. Production by independent theatre company Poemstomyotherself, 2007

- Sentimental at the Royal Court Theatre, London, as a part of the Young Writers Program, 2001