About me
Sierra is the author of the forthcoming thriller, THE ENIGMA CHALLENGE (coming 2026 from Viking Penguin), writing as SC Godfrey. She is also the author of A Very Typical Family (Sourcebooks 2022) and The Second Chance Hotel (September 2023), both under Sierra Godfrey.
Originally from Santa Cruz, California (where A Very Typical Family is set), Sierra has lived all over, including Santorini, Greece when she was a kid. Now she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two sons and far too many animals. She has spent most of her dayjob career as a technical writer, writing everything from API documentation to instruction manuals, and has worked as a graphic designer and a sports reporter.
She is also the cohost of the Heartracers podcast, along with Claire Bone, the owner of Wild Sisters Books in Sacramento. They talk about reading, writing, publishing, and bookselling. In Sierra’s spare time she is almost always reading.
She is mostly on Instagram and Threads and would love to hear from you.
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SC Godfrey, also writing as Sierra Godfrey, is the author of THE ENIGMA CHALLENGE (2026 from Viking Penguin), A Very Typical Family, and The Second Chance Hotel. When not working on books, she can be found reading fast-paced, exciting thrillers, mysteries, and romance. She lives in the Bay Area with her family. Find her at sierragodfrey.com or on Instagram @sierragodfrey.
Fun facts:
She designed this website.
She feeds her neighborhood crows. The crows in the front of the house are very business-like and want only their food and nothing else. The crow in the backyard likes to be a little more friendly. He regularly makes soup in my birdbath, bringing gross food items or dead things to marinate. In the hot summer, the stink of it is gross.
She is a European soccer fan and support Atlético Madrid as well as Hibernian FC out of Edinburgh (mon the Hibs).
She was on an episode of HGTV’s Curb Appeal and an episode of Bay Area Backroads many moons ago.