American · b. 1974
Sarah Beth Durst is an American author of fantasy for adults, teenagers, and younger readers, with more than thirty novels to her name. Born Sarah Beth Angelini in Northborough, Massachusetts, she studied English with a concentration in theater and dance at Princeton University, graduating in 1996. After a period living in England, she settled in Stony Brook, New York. Her novels often center on reluctant heroines navigating magical worlds grounded in folklore and fairy tale logic, from Ice, a retelling of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, to The Queen of Blood, which won the American Library Associations Alex Award in 2017. More recent books such as The Spellshop (2024) and The Enchanted Greenhouse (2025) have become New York Times bestsellers, bringing her cozy, garden-centered fantasy to a wide readership. She continues to publish steadily across age categories.