Sarah Schmidt

Sarah is from Melbourne and spent longer than she cares to admit working on her first novel. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Professional Writing and Editing) from Deakin University, a Master of Arts (Creative Writing) from RMIT and a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from RMIT. Sarah was awarded a 2009 Varuna Publishing Fellowship and a 2014 Varuna Fellowship for Writing Retreat, has had shorter work published in Canada (poetry) and Australia (Overland, Verandah), and was short listed for the Lord Mayor’s Literary Prize in 2011. Sarah works as a Reading & Literacy Coordinator for a public library and tries to maintain a blog at sarahschmidt.org