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, she split her time between Sweden and southern Mexico, collaborating with community health organizations in Oaxaca and serving as a visiting clinician-educator.
Larsson writes across memoir, graphic storytelling, and narrative history, tracing how bodies, institutions, and migration shape one another. Her essays have appeared in Scandinavian newspapers and literary journals, and she has contributed reflective pieces on medicine and culture to Nordic public radio. In comics form, she has collaborated with illustrators to bring clinical ethics, migration, and the textures of daily care onto the page. She received a grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, and her talks on empathy in practice have been presented at regional medical conferences.
Her publications include the memoir Ximena Robles (2024), the graphic work Brine (2025), and the historical narrative Miriam Osei (2026). Emma Larsson 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.
