Sarah Krasnostein is a multi-award winning writer and critic. She is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner (2017), The Believer (2021), Not Waving, Drowning (2022) and On Peter Carey (2023). She holds a doctorate in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice in New York and Victoria.
The Believer was named by The New Yorker as a Best Book of 2022. The Trauma Cleaner has been published in various translations.
Sarah has won Walkley Awards for long form feature writing (2024) and arts criticism (2022). She has been awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Non-Fiction, the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Prize for Non-Fiction at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and the Dobbie Literary Award. She has been a finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize (UK), the National Biography Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Walkley Book Award and the Nib Literary Award.
Sarah is a regular contributor to The Monthly and The Saturday Paper. Her work can be found in a variety of publications in Australia, America, and the UK including The Guardian, Longreads, Literary Hub,The Age and The Jewish Quarterly, as well as Oxford Handbooks Online and various academic journals. She has lectured in post-graduate criminal law and taught creative writing.
She was born in America, is currently based in Australia and has lived and worked in both countries.
Events
Sarah’s upcoming appearances can be found here.
Contact
For Australian enquiries please contact Jane Novak at the Jane Novak Literary Agency
For enquiries from the UK, US & all other countries contact Sarah Lutyens at the Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency
For Australian enquiries about The Trauma Cleaner contact Emily Booth at Text Publishing
For US enquiries about The Trauma Cleaner contact Daniel Kirschen at Creative Artists Agency
