Sarah Rees Brennan

Sarah Rees Brennan (born 21 September 1983)[1] is an Irish writer best known for young adult fantasy fiction. Her first novel, The Demon's Lexicon, was released June 2009 by Simon & Schuster.[2] Rees Brennan's books are bestsellers in the UK.

Sarah Rees Brennan
Bornc.1980
Ireland
OccupationWriter
NationalityIrish
Alma materKingston University London
Period21st century
GenreYoung adult fantasy
Website
sarahreesbrennan.com

Life and career

Rees Brennan was born in Ireland. She lived in New York after college. She obtained a Creative Writing MA from Kingston University in London[3] and worked as a librarian in Surrey, England,[4] before moving to Dublin where she currently lives.

Rees Brennan has been writing since the age of five.[5] She has a blog on Livejournal which has over 4000 subscribers.[2]

She wrote her first novel, The Demon's Lexicon, while studying for her Creative Writing MA. The publishing house Simon & Schuster obtained a three-book contract deal with her which involved an undisclosed six-figure sum. Since then she has written and collaborated on many bestselling and award-nominated works including In Other Lands and her tie-in work with Netflix.

Rees Brennan is cancer survivor, diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2017.[6]

Novels
Demon's Lexicon Trilogy
Lynburn Legacy
  • Unspoken, June 2012 (Book 1)
  • Untold, August 2013 (Book 2)
  • Unmade, 2014 (Book 3)
  • The Spring Before I Met You, September 2012 (Book 0.25)
  • The Summer Before I Met You, September 2012 (Book 0.5)
  • The Night After I Lost You (Book 1.5)
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
  • Season of the Witch (Book 1), July 2019
  • Daughter of Chaos (Book 2), December 2019
  • Path of Night (Book 3), May 2020
C.S. Pacat's Fence novelisations
  • Fence: Striking Distance, September 2020
  • Fence: Disarmed, May 2021
Shadowhunters Universe
Fate: The Winx Saga as Ava Corrigan
  • The Fairies' Path, March 2021
  • Lighting the Fire, August 2022
Other
  • Tell the Wind and Fire, April 2016
  • In Other Lands, August 2017

Short fiction
  • "Undead Is Very Hot Right Now" in The Eternal Kiss, ed. Trisha Telep
  • "The Spy Who Never Grew Up" in Kiss Me Deadly, ed. Trisha Telep
  • "Queen of Atlantis" in Subterranean Press Magazine: Summer 2011, ed. Gwenda Bond
  • "Lets Get This Undead Show on the Road" in Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions, ed. Melissa Marr
  • "Faint Heart" in After, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • "Treasure and Maidens" in Scheherazade's Facade, ed. Michael M. Jones
  • "I Gave You My Love by the Light of The Moon" in Defy the Dark, ed. Saundra Mitchell
  • "Beauty and the Chad" in Grim, ed. Christine Johnson
  • "Wings in the Morning" in 'Monstrous Affections', ed. Kelly Link

Awards

The Demon's Lexicon

  • A 2010 ALA Top Ten Best Book[7]
  • Long-listed for the Carnegie medal
  • Top Ten Best British YA Fantasy
  • A 2009 Cybils Finalist[8]
  • A finalist for the Leeds Book Award
  • Received three starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Bulletin and School Library Journal.

Unmade

In Other Lands

References
  1. Sarah Rees Brennan's livejournal profile
  2. Sarah's magic touch lands the writer a three-book deal
  3. Sarah Rees Brennan - After you Graduate, Kingston University London.
  4. Sarah Rees Brennan
  5. [Back of first novel, Interview with Sarah Rees Brennan, author of The Demon's Lexicon]
  6. Press Association (16 February 2020). "'People were complimenting my weight loss' Sarah Rees Brennan on battling cancer". Her.ie.
  7. "2010 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults". Archived from the original on 17 January 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. "2009 Cybils". Children's And Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
  9. Press Association (9 November 2017). "Who's a Hero? Who's a Villain? It's Anyone's Guess in This Fall's Best Y.A. Fantasy". The New York Times.
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