Sarah Stirling has been a full-time outdoor storyteller for 15 years and is an acclaimed magazine writer and editor in her field. She particularly enjoys exploring cultures and landscapes, telling tales of adventure and delving into topical environmental issues. Increasingly, her focus is on illuminating the natural world in order to encourage reconnection to it. For several years, Sarah was Editor of The Outdoor Adventure Guide, a British magazine focusing on everything from bush craft to wildlife watching and family adventure. For the past seven years she has been Assistant Editor of the UK's most widely read outdoor magazine, Summit. Working freelance allows her the freedom to write about the outdoors for a range of other publications, too, such as Lonely Planet books, the Observer, the Telegraph and a wide range of British outdoor magazines.

Sarah lives in a quarryman's cottage in Snowdonia with her husband, Rob. This is her first book.