Sacha Lamb is the author of When the Angels Left the Old Country (Levine Querido 2022), a Printz Honor book and Stonewall and Sydney Taylor award winner. Their second novel, The Forbidden Book (Levine Querido 2024), is a Sydney Taylor Honor book and a Boston Globe Best of the Year pick for 2024. Sacha's short fiction publications include "Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live" (Book Smugglers, 2017) and "Epistolary" (Foreshadow YA, 2019). A 2018 Lambda Literary fellow, Sacha has a degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons University. They live in New England with a miniature dachshund mix named Anzu Bean.