Sarah Krasnostein is a multi-award winning writer and critic. She is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner (2017), The Believer (2021/22), Not Waving, Drowning (2022) and On Peter Carey (2023). She holds a PhD in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice in New York and Victoria.

The Believer was named by The New Yorker as a Best Book of 2022. The Trauma Cleaner has been published in various translations.

Sarah has been awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Non-Fiction, the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Dobbie Literary Award, and the Prize for Non-Fiction at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She was a finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize (UK), the National Biography Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Walkley Book Award. In 2022, she was awarded the Walkley’s Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism.