About Sarah Lovett

My creative path began in grade school when I declared my intention to become a dancer and a writer. I grew up to perform as a member of a small modern-jazz dance company, and then, years later, to watch in awe as my agent sold my first three novels in a publishing house bidding war that netted a six-figure advance from Random House. Simon & Schuster published my next two novels. My five psychological thrillers are translated into eleven languages and have been optioned for film and television.

Sarah Lovett is the author of Dark Alchemy, Dante’s Inferno, Dangerous Attachments, Acquired Motives, and A Desperate Silence as well as 25 nonfiction travel and science books written primarily for children.

Collaborating with former CIA covert operative, Valerie Plame Wilson, Lovett co-authored  a series of “Vanessa Pierson” spy novels for Penguin Books/Blue Rider Press. The series debut, BLOWBACK, successfully launched in 2013. The second book in the series, BURNED, launched in 2014, and has been optioned for  film.

The five novels in Lovett’s crime fiction series, featuring forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange, have been translated into a dozen languages, her non-fiction books include the award-winning “Extremely Weird” children’s series, which also aired as a network television special. Her short fiction and how-to pieces are included in anthologies, and she has worked as a freelancer for newspapers, magazines, and National Public Radio.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Lovett worked as a legal researcher for the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General, an executive director of a non-profit theater, a jazz dancer, a playwright, a gas station attendant, an upholstery assistant, and a bartender. It was her experience working in the New Mexico State Penitentiary and the exposure to prison issues that led her to write her first crime series. While researching for the series, Lovett earned a degree in criminal justice.

When she’s not on deadline, Lovett works with writers as a coach, teacher and consultant. She has been a presenter at writing conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

A native Californian, she now lives in Santa Fe with her family.