Sara Lundberg is one of Sweden's most lauded children's book creators and won that country's top children's book award, the August Prize, in 2017 for The Bird in Me Flies (English edition, Groundwood Books, 2020). The picture book Summer of Diving, written by Sara Stridsberg and illustrated by Lundberg (Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press, 2022) was named a New York Times Book Review Best Children's Book, and Lundberg's The Cat Way was one of 10 NYTBR Best illustrated books of the year in 2024. Her newest illustrated book, Nobody But Me (Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press, 2026), was nominated for the August Prize and won the 2025 Nordic Council Children & Young People Literature Prize. Lundberg lives in Stockholm, Sweden.