In English

Saara Henriksson is a writer living in Tampere, Finland. Her latest novel is historical fiction, Kerjäläiskuningatar (Princess of the Poor), published by Into in 2025. Her novel Syyskuun jumalat (September Gods, Into 2017) was shortlisted for the national Kuvastaja Award for fantasy literature. Her earlier novels are Moby Doll in 2011 and Linnunpaino (Weight of the Bird) in 2012.

She has also published two stort story collections.

Her non-fiction work includes a book about ecological housecleaning (2014), a book about personal finance (2018) and a book about lazy parenting (2023), all co-written with Aino-Maija Leinonen. She has also written a writer's guide to the Finnish book branch, and co-edited a writer's guide to science fiction and fantasy "Kummallisen kirjoittajat" with Anne Leinonen and Irma Hirsjärvi in 2014.

In addition to her own work Henriksson has co-edited short story anthologies such as "The Lion and the Lynx. Finnish Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories vol 2", "Huomenna tuulet voimistuvat", Finnish ecological science fiction with Erkka Leppänen in 2013, "Surupukki", a collection of Swedish short stories in Finnish (translated by Christine Thorel) with M.G. Soikkeli in 2015, "Never Stop. Finnish science Fiction and Fantasy Stories" (2017) and "Trollguld och andra berättelser" with Christine Thorel (2018).

Read short story Seafoam in Usva International 2015, free download here.

Saara Henriksson is an active member in Osuuskumma Publishing co-operative.

Interview in Jeff Vandermeer's blog in 2011