Sara Baume was raised and still lives in Co. Cork, Ireland. She works as an artist as well as a writer, and her fiction and criticism have been published in anthologies, newspapers and journals such as The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Stinging Fly and Granta magazine. She has won the Davy Byrnes Short Story Award, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, an Irish Book Award for Best Newcomer and the Kate O'Brien Award. Her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. A Line Made by Walking, her second novel, is published by Tramp Press in Ireland and William Heinemann in the UK and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2017. Her first piece of non-fiction and a sister-publication to Seven Steeples, handiwork was published by Tramp Press in 2020 and shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize.

Verb Festival 2022 appearances:
Rūbarū: Sara Baume with Catherine Chidgey (digital series available from Oct 11).

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