Sara Zarr is the acclaimed author of four Young Adult novels. Her debut, Story of a Girl, was nominated for the National Book Award and featured on the ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Sara lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, with her husband. , Sara Zarr is an acclaimed author of YA novels, with her debut, Story of a Girl, an American National Book Award Finalist. She is also a two-time Utah Book Award winner and her books have made the annual best books lists of the American Library Association, Kirkus, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, the International Reading Association, the New York Public Library and Los Angeles Public Library, and have been translated into many languages. Raised in San Francisco, she currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband.