About Sarah Jane Butler

I live in rural Sussex just over the border from where I grew up in Kent. I studied languages at university and spent time in France and Spain before coming home and rooting myself in the Weald.

My short stories have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, and my story ‘The Swimmer’ was included in Best British Short Stories 2011.

I have twice won the 26 Project Writer’s Award, most recently in 2021 for my poem ‘Flow’, and have performed my work in pubs, a festival tent and a disused light vessel.

Starling is my first novel and I am now writing a non-fiction book about rivers and people through time, which will be published in 2027 by September Publishing.