Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold (born 3 December 1979 in Oslo) is a Norwegian author who made her literary debut in 2009 with the novel Jo fortere jeg går, jo mindre er jeg (The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am).

Skomsvold has dramatized the novel and the play premieres[clarification needed] at the National Theatre (Oslo) in 2014.

[1] Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold has also published several essays, short stories and poems in anthologies and literary magazines.

She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine Bokvennen litterært magasin.

She has also studied literature at the University of Oslo, and French at Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France.