Sacha Lamb (@sachalamb.author on Insta­gram) explores gen­der, sex­u­al­i­ty, and dis­abil­i­ty through his­tor­i­cal fic­tion cen­ter­ing Jew­ish mythol­o­gy and folk­lore. Their debut, When the Angels Left the Old Coun­try, is a Printz Hon­or book and Stonewall and Syd­ney Tay­lor award win­ner. Their sec­ond nov­el, The For­bid­den Book, is a Syd­ney Tay­lor Hon­or book and a Boston Globe Best of the Year pick for 2024. 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.