Sara Baume

Sara Baume’s previous work includes novels Spill Simmer Falter Wither, A Line Made by Walking, Seven Steeples and her 2020 bestselling non-fiction debut, handiwork. Her writing has won the Davy Byrne’s Short Story Award, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, the Rooney Prize, an Irish Book Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2020 and being nominated for countless others including the Costa and the Dublin Literary Award. She was a participant in the International Writing Program run by the University of Iowa, and has received a Literary Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. Sara grew up in East Cork and now lives in West Cork. Seven Steeples, was published by Tramp Press in spring 2022 and subsequently shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction and for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Sara’s essay ‘Dave’ appears in Running Feet, Sharp Noses: Essays on the Animal World which was published by PVA in February 2023.