Sarah Bailey is a Melbourne-based writer with a background in advertising and communications. She has two children and is currently the Managing Director of global advertising agency VMLY&R in Melbourne. Her internationally award-winning Gemma Woodstock trilogy includes The Dark Lake, published in 2017 and winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and the Davitt Award for Best Debut, followed by Into the Night in 2018, and Where the Dead Go in 2019. In 2020 she published the standalone thriller The Housemate, followed by the Audible exclusive Final Act in 2021. Both The Dark Lake and The Housemate have been optioned for film.
