Fyren Publishing was established in 2024 by Jessica Alm and Mia Lindquist. We estimate that our first title will be published in 2025.

JESSICA ALM was born in Sweden but has been based in the UK for over 25 years. She has a BA in English Literature and an MA in Twentieth Century Literature from University of Sussex. She spent fifteen years as a bookseller in London and Brighton and five years as a freelance researcher and campaigning journalist. Her current day job is at Brighton and Hove Libraries where she is particularly involved with children's activities and inspiring children to read for pleasure as well as the diversification of stock and displays and refugee solidarity. She is proud that the Brighton and Hove Library authority has been awarded Library of Sanctuary status and treasures the opportunity to highlight and celebrate migrant narratives. The idea that books and libraries should be a safe space for all, and that everyone deserves to find books where they feel represented in the stories, is at the centre of her work.

As a neurodivergent parent to autistic children she is especially passionate about naturally diverse representation for young people and would love to see more experiences published and made easily accessible in bookshops for anyone to pick up.

She has been working on her own children's book for what feels like forever.

Click here to find out more about the Libraries of Sanctuary project.

MIA LINDQUIST has worked in the book industry for over 20 years, in many different roles. Alongside her work as a salesperson and buyer at Akademibokhandeln, she studied literature and publishing at Stockholm University after which she started working as a book editor at a publishing house. She has managed projects, been a coordinator, publisher of original scripts, negotiated contracts, and worked with translations to and from many different languages.

In addition to being a language geek and quality warrior, she loves to get involved in creative projects that can in some way contribute to a better world and to people’s understanding and acceptance of each other. She was previously involved in running Queerlequin, a small book publisher focused on publishing norm-breaking romance.

In 2022, she made her own picture book as a birthday present for her five-year-old daughter and in recent years she has become increasingly interested in working with literature for children and young people and with reading promotion activities. With a strong belief in the power of books and reading to both help children understand the world, but also to enrich and strengthen them as individuals, she hopes to contribute by publishing books that can give a love of reading, recognition, as well as a better understanding of the world and other people.