About me
I live in NSW’s beautiful Southern Highlands, situated halfway between Sydney and Canberra, where we enjoy cold, frosty winters and fresh, warm summers. Native animals and birds are prolific: kangaroos, wombats, echidnas, kookaburras, cockatoos and more all grace our garden. Autumn is my favourite time, and through my study window I watch as leaves turn vivid red, yellow, purple and orange – a perfect recipe for creativity!
Sitting at a keyboard all day and penning fiction has always been my dream career. But stints as an actress (I still hold my British Actor’s Equity card), a journalist, publisher, event manager and PR consultant got in the way.
That is, until I packed my bags, left the Big Smoke of Sydney and settled in NSW’s Southern Highlands where the country air wove its creative magic. I studied online at Curtis Brown Creative, undertook Advanced Writers Masterclass with Lynn Hightower at UCLA (USA) and was a nominee for 2017 James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing. Finally, those long-awaited novels began to take shape.
In 2019, I was named in the final six shortlist for the Grindstone International Novel Prize for my latest novel, The Dilemma, a wartime mystery.
‘A Voice In The Night will intrigue you and wrap you into an eerie and riveting story that won’t let you go. Sarah Hawthorn’s writing is charismatic.’
— Lynn Hightower, The Piper