Sarah Thomas

Journeys in Between

Sarah Thomas is a writer and documentary filmmaker with a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies. She is committed to work that explores our entanglements with the living world. Her films have been screened internationally. She has been a regular contributor to Dark Mountain journal, and her writing has also appeared in the Guardian and the anthology Women On Nature edited by Katharine Norbury. In 2020 she was nominated for the Arts Foundation Environmental Writing Award. She was longlisted for the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize and shortlisted for the 2021 Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize.

Sarah’s debut memoir set in Iceland, The Raven’s Nest, was published by Atlantic Books in July 2022.

“A deeply thoughtful, vivid, enquiring, genre-traversing book, closely attentive to the people and the landscapes with which it dwells. It asks hard questions – and offers no easy answers – about what it means to belong to a place, and to live well upon a part of the earth. Sarah’s writing draws readers northwards and inwards upon a fascinating journey” – Robert Macfarlane

Selected Work

The Raven’s Nest – Atlantic Books (2022)
The Whale Road – Caught by the River (2022)
Hannah Frank: a star who still burns brightly – Art UK (2022)
‘An Island Ecology’ in Women on Nature edited by Katharine Norbury (2021)
Darkness gets to be itself here – The Guardian Country Diary (2020)
(Review) Weathered: Cultures of Climate by Mike Hulme – Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (2018)
Rainfall, Fell – Free Word (2017)
The Guest at Our Table – Dark Mountain Issue 11 (2017)
A Part of its Breathing – Dark Mountain blog (2017)
An Island Ecology – Zoomorphic (2016)
The Gathering and The Slaughter – Caught by the River (2016)
A Quiet Industry – Dark Mountain Issue 8 TECHNE (2015)
On Drama – Caught By The River (2014)
A Journey On Foot – Penguin Books UK Blog (2013) – interview here