Klara Hveberg was born in 1974 and grew up in Molde, on the western coast of Norway. Initially planning to study music and literature, she ended up earning a PhD in mathematics, writing her thesis on fractal geometry. Lean your Loneliness Slowly against Mine is her first novel. It has been sold to several countries, including the US, Germany, Korea and Poland, and was longlisted for the Pen America Translation Prize 2022.