Karolina Ramqvist is one of the most influential writers and feminists of her generation in Sweden. She has written five novels prior to Bread and Milk and is widely celebrated for her powerful ability to provoke quiet yet fierce questions rather than provide loud and easy answers. In her skillful hands, contemporary issues of sexuality, commercialization, isolation, and belonging become highly charged and, at the same time, completely unaffected. In 2015 Ramqvist was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize for her novel The White City (Grove). She is also the author of The Bear Woman (2022).