About Sarah

Sarah is a nature and place writer living at the edge of the Dee tidal estuary in England, UK. Her work explores belonging, land, loss and return through tidal landscapes and the ordinary thresholds of everyday life.

She is a solo mother of two children and a rescue dog and is currently completing an MA in Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. She holds a BA (Hons) in History from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge – a grounding that continues to shape her attention to landscape, memory and place.

Much of Sarah’s working life has been spent outdoors, exploring how nature supports both children and adults. She has worked as a learning mentor in schools and colleges and as a horticultural instructor supporting neurodivergent young people and adults, developing a long-standing interest in the relationship between people, land and wellbeing.

More recently, she founded an award-winning dog walking business – a shift that deepened her connection to the natural world and, unexpectedly, to writing. Walking daily with her reactive rescue dog through quiet, marginal places reshaped her sense of attention, patience and belonging. It became the ground from which her nature writing emerged.

Sarah’s work has been featured on the cover of Bird Watching magazine and published in Country Walking. 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. In 2025, she was awarded the Bath Spa University MA Writing Prize for 2025/26.

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.

Through her Substack, Strandlines, Sarah publishes tide-led essays, field notes and seasonal almanacs shaped by the lunar cycle and the living rhythms of the estuary.

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.