Sarah Lotz is a screenwriter and award-winning novelist whose previous work has been translated into over twenty languages.

Sarah Lotz was born in Wolverhampton, England.

She left home as a teenager and briefly lived in Paris and Israel before settling in South Africa, where she lived for about twenty years, working as a writer and artist.

She received an honours degree in English at the University of Cape Town.

She is, with author Louis Greenberg, the urban horror novelist S.L Grey, with her daughter Savannah Lotz she is Lily Herne and she is Helena S. Paige when she writes with Helen Moffett and Paige Nick.