Sarah Giles (she/her) is a writer and PhD candidate at Swinburne University researching the possibilities of the contemporary short story cycle exploring women’s experiences of isolation, trauma and mental illness.
Her writing has been published in ACE IV, The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain, ACE III: Arresting Contemporary stories by Emerging Writers, The Incompleteness Book, TEXT Journal, The Victorian Writer and Lip Magazine among others. Her audio documentary ‘learning to live’ was one of eight selected to be a part of the 2018 Sonic Tonic series.
Sarah works as a Sessional Academic at the University of Melbourne in the department of Culture and Communication. Sarah is a member of the Executive Committee of Management for the Australasian Association of Writing Programs and works as Digital Specialist for Meniscus Journal. In 2019, Sarah was the Website Manager for the first Australian Short Story Festival held in Melbourne.
Photo by Dan Cahill.
I live, work and study on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded. This is, and always was, Aboriginal land.