Sarah Webb is an award-winning children's writer and children’s book champion. Her children’s books include A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea, illustrated by Steve McCarthy which won the Irish Book Awards Junior Category and Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World, illustrated by Lauren O’Neill which won the Irish Book Awards Senior Category.

Her latest book, The Weather Girls is inspired by true events from World War 2.

Her Ask Amy Green series for age 11+ was shortlisted for the Queen of Teen Award and the Irish Book Awards. Her second series, The Songbird Cafe Girls is for age 9+.

She has also has written eleven bestselling novels for adults including Always the Bridesmaid, The Shoestring Club and The Memory Box. Her books have been published in many different countries including the US, Australia, Poland, Korea, Canada, Italy and Indonesia. She has compiled and edited three charity collections, Beyond the Stars (for children), Travelling Light and Mum’s the Word.

Sarah has also worked in the book trade for many years as a children’s bookseller and buyer and now works as the Events Manager at Halfway Up the Stairs children’s bookshop in Greystones, Co Wicklow.

She teaches creative writing, visits schools and festivals, and reviews children’s books for the Irish Independent.

She is the Bright Sparks Family Programmer for MoLI (Museum of Literature, Ireland) and in 2015 was awarded the Children's Books Ireland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children's Books.

She lives in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin and spends as much time as possible in Castletownshend, West Cork.