Sarah Urwin Jones is an Edinburgh-based classical music and visual arts writer and critic, with bylines in The Herald and The Times. She is a regular critic for BBC Music Magazine. In 2016, she won the Scottish Book Trust's New Writers Award in Narrative Non-Fiction and was nominated for the Arts Foundation Fellowship in Creative Non-Fiction the following year. She studied History and French and Medieval Art History at the Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews and the Sorbonne in Paris.