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 New England Book Award winner. Sacha's third book, Traitor's Alchemy, is scheduled for publication in spring 2027. 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.