Piia Leino was born in 1977. She lives in Helsinki with her family, and has worked as a journalist at the Finnish News Agency, STT, for almost two decades. She got her Master’s degree in social studies, majoring in journalism, from University of Tampere in 2004. She also studied creative writing for two years at the renowned Kriittinen korkeakoulu (Critical Academy) in Helsinki in 2015-2017.

Her second novel is literal dystopian novel TAIVAS (2018, “Heaven”). Her first novel was RUMA KASSA (2016, “The Ugly Cashier”, publ. Johnny Kniga) was about reality tv and the pressures women face. Her third novel will be published in 2020.

As an author she writes to understand how society works, and where it is headed. Her interests include popular culture, social media and politics.

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