About Sarah
Sarah Marles is an award-winning nature writer based on the Dee Estuary, Wirral. She is represented by Anna Pallai at AMP Literary. Her work explores nature and land, motherhood and belonging through tidal landscapes and reflective observations of everyday life. She is a solo mother of two children and a rescue dog and is currently working on her debut book.
Alongside that, she is completing an MA in Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University, where she was awarded the Bath Spa University MA Writing Prize for 2025/26. She holds a BA (Hons) in History from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Much of Sarah’s working life has been spent outdoors, exploring how nature supports both children and adults. She has worked as a horticultural instructor supporting neurodivergent young people and adults and currently works part-time as mentor in her local secondary school.
Sarah’s work has been featured on the cover of Bird Watching magazine and published in Country Walking, Cumbria Life and Waistrose Food Magazine. She writes a regular nature column for her local community magazine, and her work has also appeared in The Daily Mail (Femail), Woman & Home and on BBC Breakfast. She is also an ambassador for the conservation charity Curlew Action.
Through her Substack Strandlines, Sarah publishes tide-led essays, field notes and seasonal almanacs shaped by the lunar cycle and the tidal rhythms of the estuary.
Alongside her writing, Sarah offers in-person guided walks, talks and workshops in coastal and woodland settings. These sessions weave together nature writing, deep noticing, forest bathing and place-based reflection.
She is a qualified Nature Connection Specialist, certified by the Forest Therapy Hub and works with both adults and children. She holds an up-to-date enhanced DBS check certification.
If you are local to the Dee Estuary and are interested in in-person events, you can sign up for information via the Dee Estuary Events page.
Her work is rooted in the belief that attention is an act of care and that sometimes, the way forward is not outward or away, but back toward the places that have been waiting for us all along.
