Sarah Valentine Lang (they/them) is a young adult author from Maryland who focuses on the topics of mental health and LGBTQIA+ issues in their writing. In April of 2022, Sarah earned their Writing for Children and Young Adults certificate from McDaniel College, followed by their Master in Libreal Arts that August.

Sarah has been passionate about writing since the age of nine, but it wasn’t until much later when they identified as queer and began writing about those topics that they felt they found their place in writing. Now, Sarah writes with the purpose of telling stories that are relatable and hopeful, pulling from their own struggles with mental health and discovering their identity. Sarah creates characters for readers to find bits of themselves in, while also reiterating the fact that not everyone’s journey is the same.