Sarah Hurst is an author and journalist from the UK who lived in Anchorage from 2001 to 2013 - moving there to live with her future husband, whom she met on the internet while living in China. After assisting a producer making a documentary for the 50th anniversary of statehood in 2008 she wrote a play about Alaska history that she subsequently turned into a graphic novel with the help of nine artists. She is now back in the UK, where she writes mainly about Russian politics.