Sarah Ayoub is a freelance journalist and bestselling author based in Sydney, Australia.

Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Marie-Claire, ELLE, SBS, Sydney Review of Books and more, and she is a regular speaker at writers festivals, schools and conferences around Australia, where she passionately advocates for diversity in literature and for empowering young people to see the value in their own personal stories.

Sarah’s young adult novels are contemporary stories of identity, belonging and discovery, and she hopes that her picture books remind her young readers of all the ways they are loved and can love.

Sarah attained her PhD with a thesis examining migrant narratives in Australian teen lit and currently lectures in journalism and writing at the University of Sydney and the University of Notre Dame. She has been a Stella Prize Schools Ambassador, hosted writing workshops with the Australian High Commission in Brunei, and most recently been a judge for the NSW Premiers Literary Awards. She is a former writer-in-residence of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and currently sits on the board of the Australian Society of Authors. 

Sarah decided to pursue a career in journalism at the age of ten after realising that, like Lois Lane and Vicky Vale, it was always the reporter that got the superhero. She loves purses, pastries and Paris, and aspires to one day keep an indoor plant alive.