

Her favorite genre, however, remains science fiction, and Hoyt is a prolific writer. Her Musketeers series begins with Death of a Musketeer, a Mystery Book Club selection, and includes three other titles from Berkley Prime Crime. The first book in her Shakespearean fantasy series, Ill Met by Moonlight was a finalist for the 2002 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Hoyt says "no genre is safe from me." She has more than 30 novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical. She became a United States citizen in 1988 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Married in 1985 to Dan Hoyt (a science fiction author and mathematician), she has two sons. She also speaks Swedish, Italian and French, with varying degrees of fluency. Educated in both Portugal and the United States, she graduated from University of Porto, with a Master's equivalent in Modern Languages and Literatures with a major in English and a minor in German. Hoyt was born on Novemin the village of Granja, Águas Santas, Maia and grew up in Porto, Portugal. She was the leader of the Sad Puppies campaign in the year that it ceased nominating candidates.

She has written under the noms de plume Sarah D'Almeida, Elise Hyatt, Sarah Marques, Laurien Gardner, and Sarah Marques de Almeida Hoyt. She won the 2011 Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel for her science fiction novel Darkship Thieves, and the 2018 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel for Uncharted, which she co-authored with Kevin J. She moved to the United States in the early 1980s, married Dan Hoyt in 1985, and became an American citizen in 1988. Hoyt (born November 18, 1962) is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction writer.
