Sara Sheridan (born 7 June 1968) is a Scottish activist and writer who works in a variety of genres, though predominantly in historical fiction.

Sheridan's first book, contemporary commercial fiction, Truth or Dare entered the Sunday Times top 50 when it was published in 1998.

In the successive two years Sheridan wrote two more novels in the same genre, Ma Polinski's Pockets and The Pleasure Express.

During this period, she also co-wrote two short films, Fish Supper[5] starring Lynda Bellingham and The Window Bed, which was nominated for a Sky Movies Max Award in 2001.

She was then commissioned by specialist publisher Barrington Stoke to write a novella for reluctant readers, called The Blessed and The Damned.

[citation needed] She now writes a series of historical novels: one based around the real lives of notable figures in the late Georgian/early Victorian eras (The Secret Mandarin – 2009, Secret of the Sands – 2011, On Starlit Seas – 2016, The Ice Maiden - 2018, The Fair Botanists - 2022, The Secrets of Blythswood Square - 2024) Her 9-part series of 1950s cosy crime noir mysteries featuring her fictional ex-secret service heroine, Mirabelle Bevan (Brighton Belle – 2012, London Calling – 2014, British Bulldog – 2015, Operation Goodwood – 2016, Russian Roulette – 2017, Indian Summer – 2019.

An imagined female atlas of Scotland - 2019), which was included in the David Hume Institute's First Minister's Summer Reading List 2019.

A portrait of her by Scottish artist Sophie Mckay Knight, the result of a creative collaboration, was featured by The Guardian Art & Design column in 2015[21] before going on to public exhibition in the National Gallery of Scotland.

[22] with her daughter, fashion producer, Molly Sheridan, REEK was a fragrance company that spoke out against the lack of female memorialisation throughout history and challenged beauty industry norms.