(b. 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 Sigrun 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 and her latest book, When My Mother Died, came out in 2025 and was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize.