Ida Linde was born in 1980, grew up in Umeå but now lives in Stockholm. She made her debut in 2006 with novel Maskinflickans testamente.
Her 2014 novel You Travel North to Die was awarded Norrland Literature Society’s Prize and Aftonbladet’s Literary Prize.

Linde has taught Creative Writing at the renowned Biskops Arnö Writers’ School and is now the literary curator at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.