Sarah Walker is a Naarm/Melbourne-based writer and artist. She makes work about anxiety, intimacy and absurdity. She has a particular interest in the body and the ways in which it escapes control, as well as how apprehension of disaster impacts the sense of the present.
Her first book, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying, a collection of non-fiction essays about the unruly body in late capitalism, won the 2021 Quentin Bryce Award. She has been published in the Monthly, Overland, Meanjin, Island Magazine, Kill Your Darlings, the ABR, the AFR and the Guardian. Her writing and art have been widely recognised in awards both nationally and internationally. She is a current PhD candidate at RMIT, where she teaches video art. She is represented by the amazing Rach Crawford at Wolf Literary.
