Saffron Bryant was born on the 17th December 1990 in a small town in North Queensland. In 2010, a few weeks before her twentieth birthday, she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. After extensive, life-saving surgery she returned to her home in Queensland to recover and finish 'The Fallen Star'. She received a Bachelor of Biomedical Science in 2011 along with the Society for Immunology Prize and an Academic Medal.