Sara M Saleh

Sara M Saleh

Sara M Saleh is an award-winning writer/poet, human rights lawyer, and the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon. Her poems, short stories, and essays have been widely published nationally in English and Arabic.

She is co-editor of the groundbreaking 2019 anthology Arab, Australian, Other. Sara made history as the first poet to win both the Australian Book Review's 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2020.

Sara lives on Bidjigal land with her partner and their cats, Cappy & Lola. Songs for the Dead and the Living is her first novel and it was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. (Multicultural NSW Award).

Books

    The flirtation of girls/ghazal el-banat

    The flirtation of girls/ghazal el-banat

    Author(s):

    Sara M Saleh

    Publisher:

    University Of Queensland Press

    Published:

    November 2023
    A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh. With her first full-length poetry collection, Sara M Saleh introduces us to the polychromatic lives of girls and women as...

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    Songs for the dead and the living

    Songs for the dead and the living

    Author(s):

    Sara M Saleh

    Publisher:

    Affirm Press

    Published:

    August 2023
    When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house above a paint shop on the outskirts of Beirut, with her large, chaotic, loving...

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