After graduating in philosophy and art at Gothenburg University, she worked as an editor for the cultural journal Ord & Bild.
[1] Her dramatic expressionist poems, written in prose, evoke animal and human worlds which are also depicted in later works.
[3] Spott ur en änglamun (Spitting Out of an Angel's Mouth, 1993) depicts a strange fairytale world seen through the eyes of little girls in red dresses who meet Bambi and Fox.
[4] She frequently introduces allusions to violence, desire and rupture, sometimes emphasized by the sensuous tactile effects of necklaces and clothing, as in Strata.
[2] As a literary translator, she has rendered into Swedish classic texts by women writers, including Anaïs Nin’s House of Incest, Giannina Braschi’s Empire of Dreams (poetry collection), Eileen Myles’ Chelsea Girls, and United States of Banana, and Marguerite Duras' Le Navire Night.