Sarah Jones is a British-American fantasy writer and former map librarian. Born in 1987 in Cardiff, she studied folklore and book history at the University of St Andrews, then worked in the British Library's Maps Reading Room before moving to Portland, Oregon, in 2013. Her debut, The Cartographer's Ward (2017), was followed by The Weather Museum (2019) and Paper Labyrinths (2022). She was shortlisted for the 2020 British Fantasy Award for her novella Drowned Bells and has contributed essays on urban folklore to literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic. When not drafting alt-city adventures, she volunteers with a youth book festival, collects 19th-century almanacs, and hikes with a rescued greyhound named Lumen.
