Sarah Rees Brennan


Sarah Rees Brennan is an Irish fantasy novelist. Her books are bestsellers in both the UK and USA.
Rees Brennan's first novel, The Demon's Lexicon, was longlisted for the 2010 Carnegie Medal. Her fantasy novel In Other Lands was a finalist for the 2017 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. Her adult fantasy novel Long Live Evil debuted on the USA Today's best seller list and became a #1 Sunday Times bestseller on release in the UK, and appeared on both The New York Times 2024 Best of Fantasy list and The New York Times Best of Romance list. Rees Brennan's work was listed twice in the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading List - her Hansel and Gretel retelling "Happily Ever After Comes Round" was recommended in the Short Stories category and Long Live Evil was recommended in Novels - Fantasy.
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Life and career

Rees Brennan was born in Ireland. She obtained a Creative Writing MA from Kingston University in London and worked as a librarian in Surrey, England before moving to Dublin where she currently lives.
Rees Brennan has been writing since the age of five. She has a blog on LiveJournal which has over 4000 subscribers.
She wrote her first novel, The Demon's Lexicon, while studying for her Creative Writing MA. The publishing house Simon & Schuster obtained a three-book contract deal with her which involved an undisclosed six-figure sum. Since then she has written and collaborated on many bestselling and award-nominated works including In Other Lands and her tie-in work with Netflix. Rees Brennan's most recent novel is Long Live Evil which debuted on the USA Today's best seller list and was a number one best seller on the Sunday Times in the UK.
Rees Brennan is a cancer survivor, having been diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2017.
In October 2025, Rees Brennan was a guest on the Off the Shelf podcast.

Awards and honors

Three of Brennan's books are Junior Library Guild books: Untold, Unmade, and In Other Lands.
The Demon's Lexicon received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Bulletin, and School Library Journal.
In 2017, The New York Times included In Other Lands on their list of the fall's best young adult fantasy novels.

Publications

Novels

Demon's Lexicon Trilogy

The Demon's Lexicon, June 2009The Demon's Covenant, May 2010The Demon's Surrender, June 2011

Lynburn Legacy

Unspoken, June 2012 Untold, August 2013 Unmade, 2014 The Spring Before I Met You, September 2012 The Summer Before I Met You, September 2012
  • ''The Night After I Lost You''

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The Bane Chronicles, co-authored with Cassandra Clare and Maureen JohnsonTales from the Shadowhunter Academy, co-authored with Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson and Robin WassermanGhosts of the Shadow Market, co-authored with Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Link and Robin Wasserman

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Season of the Witch, July 2019Daughter of Chaos, December 2019Path of Night, May 2020

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Fence: Striking Distance, September 2020Fence: Disarmed, May 2021

[Fate: The Winx Saga]

The Fairies' Path, as Ava Corrigan, March 2021Lighting the Fire, August 2022

Time of Iron

Long Live Evil, August 2024All Hail Chaos, forthcoming from Orbit Books

Stand-alone novels

Team Human, co-authored with Justine Larbalestier, July 2012Tell the Wind and Fire, April 2016In Other Lands, August 2017

Short fiction

  • "Undead Is Very Hot Right Now" in The Eternal Kiss, ed. Trisha Telep
  • "The Spy Who Never Grew Up" in Kiss Me Deadly, ed. Trisha Telep
  • "Queen of Atlantis" in Subterranean Press Magazine: Summer 2011, ed. Gwenda Bond
  • "Lets Get This Undead Show on the Road" in Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions, ed. Melissa Marr
  • "Faint Heart" in After, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • "Treasure and Maidens" in Scheherazade's Facade, ed. Michael M. Jones
  • "I Gave You My Love by the Light of The Moon" in Defy the Dark, ed. Saundra Mitchell
  • "Beauty and the Chad" in Grim, ed. Christine Johnson
  • "Wings in the Morning" in Monstrous Affections, ed. Kelly Link
  • "Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds" Part One and Part Two in The Sunday Morning Transport
  • "Happily Ever After Comes Round" in Uncanny Magazine May-June 2024, ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas