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. Sarah works as a sessional academic, teaching into creative writing units for Swinburne University.

She is the founding editor and publisher of Slush Press – a new online journal publishing fiction, currently accepting submissions of short stories, micro|flash fiction, prose poetry and other hybrid forms.

Her writing has been published in ACE IV, The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain, ACE III, 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 serves as a member of the Executive Committee of Management for the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) – the peak academic body representing the discipline of Creative Writing in Australasia. For AAWP, she leads the Website and Online Presence Portfolio, and provides support to the Prizes and Partnerships Portfolio. Sarah also works as an Editor and Digital Specialist for Meniscus Journal.