Börkur Sigurbjörnsson is an avid storyteller whose narratives are packed with funny dialogs and vivid scenario descriptions. He writes realistic fiction and his stories are usually based on real events in the author's life. Although the tales contain grains of truth, they are melded with fiction, making the reader curious to know the line between reality and fantasy.

Börkur was born in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1976. For the past two decades his education and science career has brought him all over the world with prolonged stays in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Düsseldorf and London. Börkur has a PhD degree in computer science and works on Web related research and development, along with writing fiction.

Börkur's literary debut was the short fiction collection 999 Abroad, in which most stories tell tales of an Icelander living abroad.