Lindström is a Swedish writer and journalist. In 1979, she graduated in journalism in Göteborg and then got a job in a daily newspaper. She was a radio producer on the Swedish radio from 1984 to 1994. Afterwards she worked as a television producer and from 2000 to 2010, she was the editor of the cultural department on Swedish television. Together with Maud Nycander she directed and wrote the screenplay for the documentary Palme (2012). Two years later she directed the TV documentary about the writer Astrid Lindgren Astrid (2014), which was very popular.