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Sarah Crossan



Sarah Crossan is Irish. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Literature before training as an English and Drama teacher at Cambridge University and worked to promote creative writing in schools before leaving teaching to write full time.

She completed her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick in 2003 and in 2010 received an Edward Albee Fellowship for writing.

She currently lives in NYC.
 

Awards: YA Book (2016), Carnegie (2016)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Romance
 
Series
Breathe
   1. Breathe (2012)
   2. Resist (2013)
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Novels
   The Weight of Water (2011)
   Apple and Rain (2014)
   One (2015)
   We Come Apart (2017) (with Brian Conaghan)
   Moonrise (2017)
   Being Toffee (2019)
     aka Toffee
   Here is the Beehive (2020)
   Where The Heart Should Be (2024)
   Hey, Zoey (2024)
   Are You Awake? (2025)
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Collections
   Tomorrow is Beautiful (poems) (2021)
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Picture Books show
 
Chapter Books show
 
Books containing stories by Sarah Crossan
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Here I Stand (2016)
Stories That Speak for Freedom

Awards
2016 YA Book Prize : One
2016 Carnegie Medal : One

Award nominations
2025 YA Book Prize (shortlist) : Where The Heart Should Be
2018 YA Book Prize (nominee) : Moonrise
2017 Costa Book Award for Children's Book (nominee) : Moonrise
2015 Carnegie Medal (nominee) : Apple and Rain
2013 Carnegie Medal (nominee) : The Weight of Water


Sarah Crossan recommends
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Three Mothers (2025)
Hannah Beckerman
"Pacy and compelling...emotionally raw."
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Northern Soul (2024)
Phil Earle
"I absolutely loved it. It's so sweet, funny, relatable, well paced and original..."
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Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop (2023)
Hwang Bo-reum
"An incredibly exciting debut novel. At once gentle and invigorating. I devoured it."

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