Margrét Sigrún Höskuldsdóttir was born on November 29, 1972, in Þingeyri, Dýrafjörður, but moved to the capital city during her teenage years. She completed a B.Ed. degree from the Iceland University of Education and has most of her professional career worked as a primary school teacher. Margrét also holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of Edinburgh.

Margrét has been surrounded by books since childhood and has a great interest in literature and poetry. The desire to write a novel emerged in recent years, and her first novel, Dalurinn, saw the light of day in the summer of 2022. Dalurinn is a thriller set in the Westfjords’ nature and touches on stories and folklore intertwined with the setting. There, we meet a young woman who goes to a remote valley in the west to finish her master’s thesis in folklore and intends to use the solitude for that purpose. The setting of the novel is the walley that her grandparents used to own a majority in and where Margret and her family now own a summerhouse in.

Margrét lives in the Vogahverfi district of Reykjavík with her husband, two sons, and their dog Tinni, who enjoys walks where Margrét weaves new threads for her next novels.