Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker is a Naarm/Melbourne-based writer and artist who makes work about anxiety, intimacy and absurdity.

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 was joint winner of the 2025 KYD Creative Non-Fiction Essay Prize, was runner-up in the 2019 Calibre Essay Prize and received the 2020 ABR Victorian Rising Star award.

Her work has appeared in The Monthly, Overland, Meanjin, Island Magazine, Kill Your Darlings, the ABR, and The Guardian.

Her debut novel, The Water Takes, is out now with Summit Australia.