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Sarah Crossan biography

Sarah Crossan is an Irish author known for her work in children’s and young adult fiction. She studied philosophy and literature at the University of Warwick and later completed a master’s degree in creative writing at the University of Cambridge. Crossan worked as an English teacher before becoming a full-time writer.

Her debut novel, The Weight of Water, was published by Bloomsbury in 2012. The book was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and won the 2012 UKLA Book Award. In 2014, she published Apple and Rain, which was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

Crossan’s 2015 novel, One, written in verse, won the 2016 Carnegie Medal, the YA Book Prize, the CBI Book of the Year Award, and the Bookseller’s Children’s Book Prize. In 2017, she published Moonrise, which was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award.

Her other works include Breathe (2012), Resist (2013), Toffee (2019), and Here is the Beehive (2020). Crossan has also collaborated with Brian Conaghan on the verse novel We Come Apart (2017).

In 2018, Crossan was appointed the UK Children’s Laureate for the period 2018–2019. Her books have been translated into multiple languages and have received numerous awards and nominations.

Toffee was shortlisted for the 2020 Carnegie Medal.