Sacha Lamb is the author of When the Angels Left the Old Country, a Printz Honor book and Stonewall and Sydney Taylor award winner. Their second novel, The Forbidden Book, is a Sydney Taylor Honor book and a Boston Globe Best of the Year pick for 2024. A 2018 Lambda Literary fellow, Sacha has a degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons University. They live in New England with a miniature dachshund mix named Anzu Bean.