Sarah Mussi is an award winning author of children's and young adult's fiction. Her first novel The Door of No Return won the Glen Dimplex Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award. Her second novel The Last of the Warrior Kings was shortlisted for the Lewisham Book Award, inspired a London Walk, and is used as a text in Lewisham schools. Her thriller Siege was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal (2014) and won the BBUKYA award for contemporary YA fiction, and Riot was longlisted for The Amazing Book Award. Her most recent novel Bomb was published in 2015 by Hodder Children's Books. Sarah was born and raised in the Cotswolds, attended Pates Grammar School for Girls, and graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art and an MA from the Royal College of Art. She spent over fifteen years in West Africa as a teacher and now teaches English in Lewisham, where she is also the current Chair of CWISL (Children's Writers and Illustrators in South London).