 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. Anderson.She has written under the noms de plume Sarah D'Almeida, Elise Hyatt, Sarah Marques, Laurien Gardner, and Sarah Marques de Almeida Hoyt.Hoyt was born on November 18, 1962 in the village of Granja, Águas Santas, Maia and grew up in Porto, Portugal.