title: Missing Sarah: A Memoir Of Loss
author: Vries Maggie De
description: In addition to<i>Missing Sarah</i>,<b>Maggie de Vries</b>is the author of nine books for children and teens. Her recent teen novel,<i>Rabbit Ears,</i>is closely linked with her sisters story (which she explored in<i>Missing Sarah</i>) as is her 2014 TEDx Talk,<i>The Red Umbrella: Sex Work, Stigma and the Law</i>.Maggie has been teaching childrens literature and creative writing courses for more than twenty yearsand is currentlyteaching at UBCs Creative Writing Program. She also works as a writing coach and mentor and speaks widely on sex workers rights.<br /><br />Online:<br />www.maggiedevries.com<br />https://twitter.com/Maggie_deVries?lang=en
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  NATASHA LESTER worked as a marketing executive before returning to university
  to study creative writing. She completed a Master of Creative Arts as well as
  her first novel, What Is Left Over, After, which won the T.A.G. Hungerford
  Award for Fiction. Her second novel, If I Should Lose You, was published in
  2012, followed by A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald in 2016, Her Mother’s Secret in
  2017 and the Top 10 Australian and international best sellers The Paris
  Seamstress in 2018 and The French Photographer in 2019.
  
  In her spare time Natasha loves to teach writing, is a sought after public
  speaker and can often be found playing dress-ups with her three children. She
  lives in Perth.
  
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