Sarah Day’s books have won awards including the Queensland Premier’s and ACT poetry prizes. Her books have also been shortlisted for the NSW, Tasmanian Premier’s, and Prime Minister’s awards. In 2017 she received the Alan Marshall short story prize. She has collaborated with musicians in the UK and Australia, and judged national poetry, fiction, and nature-writing competitions, and taught creative writing to year 12 students for twenty years. Her ninth collection, Slack Tide (Pitt Street Poetry), was published in 2022. 

Photograph credit: Gordon Harrison-Williams