sarah paige aarons (born 4 october 1994) is a songwriter from melbourne, australia. now based in los angeles, aarons is signed to sony atv publishing. she co-wrote "stay" by zedd and alessia cara and "the middle" by zedd, maren morris and grey, which both went to #1 on mainstream top 40 and were each certified double platinum in the us. in 2019 aarons was nominated for song of the year at the 61st annual grammy awards for her work on "the middle".