Carmen Baltzar (Helsinki / Lisbon) is a Finnish-Romani artist working across writing, film, photography, performance and visual arts. She reclaims authorship over how Romani women’s bodies are imagined. Her work creates language and ritual for loss and transformation, metabolizing impermanence through inherited languages of rhythm, storytelling, incantation and spell. Her lyrical debut novel, carmen (2026), is published in Finnish by Kosmos. She co-adapted carmen into the short opera love is a rebellious bird, which premiered at the Finnish National Opera in 2026. Her short film all the love in my body premiered in the international competition at Krakow Film Festival in 2026, won the New Wave Award at Helsinki International Film Festival, Best Film at Ake Dikhea? International Festival of Romani film, and screened at Sarajevo Film Festival, Nordisk Panorama, and others. She holds a BSc in Psychology from City University London and an MA in Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking from UCL, and is a member of the Romani Filmmakers Network (RFN).