Lani Yamamoto is a children's author and illustrator based in Iceland.

She studied psychology at Bryn Mawr College, has a diploma in filmmaking from the London Film School, and master's degrees in both creative writing and theology from the University of Oxford.

[4][5] In 2017, she was a Benediktson Fellow at the Leighton Artists Colony at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

[3] Yamamoto's books have been well received, and have won a number of literary prizes.

[7] Egill spámaður (Egill the Prophet), was nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize, the Icelandic Literature Prize, and the Reykjavik Children's Book Award.