Writer, editor, lecturer and mentor Sara Grant is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Editing Your Novel: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing, which was published by Bloomsbury, June 2025. Dark Parties, her first young adult novel, won the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Crystal Kite Award for Europe. Publishers in the US, UK and Europe, including Scholastic, Little, Brown and Orion, have published ten of Sara’s books for children/teens. As a freelance editor of series fiction, she has worked on fourteen different series and edited nearly 100 books. She’s the Talent Manager for Storymix (storymix.co.uk), an inclusive fiction studio. She’s taught master’s courses on writing for children/teens at Goldsmiths University and the University of Winchester. She has given writing workshops in the US, UK and Europe. She co-founded Undiscovered Voices – which has launched the writing careers of more than a hundred authors and illustrators, who now have published more than 400 children’s books. (undiscoveredvoices.com) Sara was born and raised in Washington, Indiana, in the United States. She graduated from Indiana University and later earned a master’s degree in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths University. She lives in London.