Emma Larsson is a Swedish physician and writer whose work explores care, language, and the borders between illness and daily life. Raised in Möllevången, Malmö, she studied medicine at Uppsala University and completed her anesthesiology residency at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg.
After additional training in palliative care and narrative medicine, Emma split her time between Sweden and southern Mexico, collaborating with community health organizations in Oaxaca and serving as a visiting clinician-educator. Her essays have appeared in Scandinavian newspapers and literary journals, and she has contributed reflective pieces on medicine and culture to Nordic public radio.
Alongside memoir and essay, Larsson works in graphic storytelling, collaborating with illustrators to bring clinical ethics, migration, and the textures of daily care into the comics form. She received a residency grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee for her nonfiction, and her talks on empathy in clinical practice have been presented at regional medical conferences. Emma lives in Gothenburg, where she teaches communication and ethics to medical trainees and tends a small balcony garden of rosemary, chilies, and geraniums. She is fluent in Swedish, English, and Spanish. Her publications include the memoir Ximena Robles.
