Sara Baume's debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and has been widely translated. In 2017, her second novel, A Line Made by Walking, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, a prize set up specifically to celebrate experimental fiction. She is a graduate of the International Writing Program run by the University of Iowa and the recipient of a Literary Fellowhip from the Lannan Foundation in New Mexico. she lives on the south-west coast of Ireland, where she works as a visual artist as well as a writer; her first solo exhibition took place in London in 2018. 

Her non-fiction debut handiwork was shortlisted for the Folio Price in 2021 and her third novel Seven Steeples came out in April 2022. 

 

Sara is now performing and travelling with the multimedia project The Alphabet of Birds. She has recently performed The Alphabet of Birds at the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles University Prague. 

 

 

Photo Credit: Sarah Davis Goff