Emmi Itäranta writes fiction in Finnish and English. She lived many years in the UK before relocating back to Finland in 2021. Her novels have been characterised as lyrical dystopias with strong ecological undercurrents. Her award-winning debut novel Memory of Water (2014) was widely translated and is being made into a film. Itäranta has also published two other novels, The City of Woven Streets(2016)and The Moonday Letters (2020)