Sarah Epstein is an award-winning Australian author, illustrator and designer who grew up in suburban Sydney and now lives in Melbourne with her husband and two sons. Her first novel Small Spaces, a YA psychological thriller, won Best YA Crime Novel at the Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards and the Adelaide Festival Award for Young Adult Fiction, and was an Honour Book at the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards. It was also short-listed for another six awards including the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Queensland Literary Awards and the Australian Book Industry Awards. Her suspenseful new YA mystery Deep Water was released in April 2020.