Sarah Brennan was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and raised with her three siblings on the slopes of Mount Wellington among goats, exotic poultry, beehives and Tasmanian devils. She started writing poetry and stories for children at the age of seven to the tumultuous acclaim of her pet dog.

After studying law at the University of Queensland she worked for sixteen years as a lawyer in Brisbane and then London, where she spent her spare time writing seditious poems about lawyers which were published incognito in various law magazines, and stories for children which went promptly into a large plastic bag. Throughout her legal career, she would fantasize about running away to Ireland to work in a baker’s shop by day and write by night. It wasn’t until fate intervened and her husband was posted to Hong Kong in 1998 that she left her lawyer’s life behind.

After three years immersed in child rearing, Sarah began writing humor articles for the newly revamped Playtimes magazine. She also penned an agony column incognito as Edna Higginbothomne, Psychotic to the Stars.

She finally showed her plastic bag of stories to a publisher, and by August 2004, her first children’s book, A DIRTY STORY, was on the bookshelves in Hong Kong, followed by AN EVEN DIRTIER STORY in 2005, with the nauseous Neats and gruesome Grots doing constant battle in the famous district of Twinkle Downs. The books were an instant success and Sarah has become a popular speaker and reader on the school and bookshop circuit in Hong Kong.

But life as a mother in Hong Kong is too unique to remain unsung. After years spent listening to bizarre anecdotes, Sarah felt compelled to put pen to paper, and her first book for adults, DUMMIES FOR MUMMIES, was born.

Sarah lives with her husband, two daughters, saintly helper and a mad cocker spaniel in Pok Fu Lam.