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I grew up in the West Midlands, UK, in a tumbling-down Victorian house with secret rooms, a mysterious cellar, and a dangerous attic. My siblings and I were forever escaping cruel orphanages and wicked witches with the help of flying carpets and the magical ability to "bounce" to other worlds. We each had a tiny manual typewriter to tap out our imaginations, and drew reams of pictures and comic strips on the used computer paper our dad brought home from his lab. Fantasy works such as The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and Little Grey Men kept me enchanted, along with the Little House books and endless Enid Blyton tales of girls at boarding school.

We moved to Australia when I was a teenager, and around the same time I started reading what scant science fiction the school library had to offer. At uni, where I studied biology, the library was geared towards the classics, so that's what I read--back issues of Asimov's and Analog; the bright yellow Victor Gollancz hardbacks; stories by Isaac Asimov, Frederick Pohl, Ray Bradbury, Poul Anderson, and other masters of the genre; and various, often dreadful, anthologies from the 40s, 50s and 60s. These stories transported me to other worlds as the fairytales of my childhood had. This taste for hard science fiction led me to the likes of Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, as well as to stories that focused on world-building and characters by Vonda McIntyre and others. I also love non-fiction, particularly in the field of biology--from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins to a quick browse through my husband's Scientific American.

One science degree and many odd-jobs later, I accidentally ended up in the educational publishing industry, working as a textbook editor and project editor. On the side, for several years I was involved with Aurealis, Australia's science fiction and fantasy magazine, first as copyeditor with Dirk Strasser (editor) and then as associate editor with Keith Stevenson (editor) and Trudi Canavan (art director). This introduced me to the Australian science fiction community and inspired me to turn my scribblings into stories.

In 2005 I married an American, also a keen writer, and moved to the U.S. Now settled in the southwest desert, I joined a local writing chapter and teamed up with a fantastic critique group. I'm represented by Kristin Nelson of the Nelson Literary Agency, and in 2009 she sold my debut science fiction novel Song of Scarabaeus to Eos (HarperCollins), along with the sequel.

I'm represented by Kristin Nelson of the Nelson Literary Agency. You can write to me here: saracreasy at gmail dot com