Emma Larsson is a Swedish physician and writer whose work traces how bodies, institutions, and migration shape one another across borders and generations. Raised in Möllevången, Malmö, she studied medicine at Uppsala University and completed an anesthesiology residency at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. Additional training in palliative care and narrative medicine informs her attention to detail—clinical, archival, and linguistic—in both clinical practice and on the page.
Larsson divides her time between Sweden and southern Mexico, collaborating with community health organizations in Oaxaca and teaching communication and ethics to medical trainees. Her essays have appeared in Scandinavian newspapers and literary journals, and she has contributed reflections on medicine and culture to Nordic public radio. Awarded support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, she writes across memoir, graphic storytelling, and narrative history, often blending oral histories, institutional archives, and the textures of daily care. Her publications include the memoir Ximena Robles (2024), the narrative history Flight from Yannick (2024), the graphic work Brine (2025), and the historical narrative Miriam Osei (2026). Fluent in Swedish, English, and Spanish, Emma Larsson tends a small balcony garden of rosemary, chilies, and geraniums in Gothenburg when she is not in Oaxaca's markets or hospital wards.
