Karin Tidbeck lives and works in Malmö as a freelance writer and translator, and writes speculative fiction in Swedish and English. They debuted in 2010 with the Swedish short story collection Vem är Arvid Pekon?. Their self-translated English debut, the 2012 collection Jagannath, received the Crawford Award and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. Their 2017 novel Amatka, also self-translated from Swedish, was shortlisted for the Locus Award and the Prix Utopiales in 2018. A second novel, The Memory Theater, came out in February 2021 and was listed among The New York Times’ best science fiction and fantasy books of the year. Tidbeck also writes interactive fiction, including a story game for White Wolf and an adventure for the horror RPG Call of Cthulhu. They dedicate their free time to interactive storytelling, historical fencing and forteana.
