Sara Zarr is the author of two critically acclaimed novels for young adults, Sweethearts and Story of a Girl (a 2007 National Book Award finalist). She has also contributed to the anthologies Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: Stories about Loving—and Loathing—Your Body, and Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical.

Sara exploded onto the theatrical scene in the role of a greedy bad girl in Linda Mar Elementary’s original production, Three for the Money. She continued her career through high school as a passenger in Anything Goes, Theodosia in Bone-Chiller!, and Mollie in The Mousetrap. As an adult, she’s appeared in Alice in Wonderland; Oliver!; A Christmas Carol; Look Homeward, Angel; and Judevine, and was a penlight—wearing stage crew member for many other shows. She met her husband while working backstage on a production of Pinocchio. Being married to him has been her favorite role to date.