Sara M Saleh

Sara M. Saleh is an award-winning writer and human rights lawyer of Palestinian, Egyptian and Lebanese heritage. Her writing has been published across dozens of literary platforms and shared at festivals from Brooklyn to Beirut. Sara made history as the first poet to win the prestigious Peter Porter and the Judith Wright Poetry Prizes (2020-21). Her debut novel, Songs for the Dead and the Living (Affirm 2023), and poetry collection, The Flirtation of Girls (UQP 2023), received multiple prizes and shortlistings.