Eva Maria Fredensborg was born in 1969 in Härnösand, Sweden, and has worked as a strategic planner in the advertising industry. In 2013 she debuted with the crime novel Én gang morder [Once a Murderer], followed by Min mund er lukket [My Lips Are Sealed] (2014) and I blinde [In the Dark] (2015). These three crime novels make up a trilogy featuring the characters Robert Strand, Asta Qvist and Carl Pedersen, and rights have been sold to Italy (Atmosphere Libri) and Germany (Goldmann).
With The White Darkness Fredensborg embarks on a new chapter in her writing and a new genre.