Sarra Manning is a writer from England. She attended the University of Sussex and took up an English with Media Studies degree. She became a freelance writer after submitting her work to Melody Maker. She worked as the entertainment editor for five years of the now-defunct teen magazine J-17. Manning was the editor of Elle Girl (UK edition), then re-launched What To Wear magazine and has worked on UK magazines such as Bliss and The Face. She's contributed to ELLE, Seventeen, The Guardian and Details and now is a contributing editor to ELLE UK and writes regularly for "Grazia", Red Magazine and "The Sunday Telegraph Stella Magazine" too, as well as consulting for a number of British magazine publishers. She has been dubbed the "teen queen extraordinaire" but her first adult novel, "Unsticky" will be published by Headline in 2009.