Sarah Lahey is a designer, educator, and award-winning author. She is a senior lecturer teaching design, technology, and creative thinking classes in Sydney, Australia. Her Heartless series of sci-fi novels have won the Chanticleer Book Awards, the American Fiction Awards, the Independent Publishers Award (IPPY), and the Indie Reader Discovery Award. Her novel Louie the Lynx and Ryan the Lion won the 2024 Indie Discovery Award Winner: Best Romance