Sigrun Alba (f. 1973) writes both fiction and non-fiction. Over the past twenty years, she has lived in Reykjavík and Copenhagen and worked as a writer, scholar, lecturer and curator. She was Associate Professor at the Iceland University of the Arts for ten years and has published a number of academic articles and books about historiography, photography, fine art and architecture. 

Since 2022 Sigrún Alba has focused on writing fiction, essays and auto-fiction. In 2022 her auto-theory on photography and memory, Snowflakes in the Nightsky was published. In 2023 she published her first novel, A Path Uncharted, where she draws inspiration from real events and characters. When My Mother Died, came out in 2025 and was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize.