Sarah Mayberry

Sarah Mayberry is an Australian contemporary romance author and television screenwriter. She has written several novels for Harlequin Mills and Boon, as well as scripts for the television soap opera Neighbours. She was a storyliner for the New Zealand medical drama Shortland Street and co-created the teen drama series Karaoke High with Kirsty McKenzie. Mayberry and her works have been nominated for several awards, and she won the Favourite Erotic Romance accolade at the Australian Romance Readers Awards in 2015.

Early life Mayberry was born in Melbourne. She grew up in the suburb of Wantirna. Mayberry knew from a young age that she wanted to be a writer and began writing stories during school. She wrote some Regency romances, but they were rejected by Harlequin Mills and Boon and she decided to pursue a career in journalism.

Mayberry has worked as a storyliner and scriptwriter for the Australian soap opera Neighbours since 1998. When the series was cancelled in 2022, Mayberry had written 230 episodes of Neighbours. Mayberry credited her time with the show with helping her to become a better romance writer. After plotting a long term romance between two characters, she realised where she had been going wrong in her own writing.

Mayberry has also worked as a storyliner on Shortland Street and Home and Away. They first approached TVNZ with their idea in 2003, and the network developed the show into a three-week soap opera. In July 2022, Mayberry confirmed that she was working on a romantic comedy series to air in the United States and a thriller series for the UK.