Sarah Malik
Sarah Malik is a Walkley award–winning investigative journalist and author. She was a literary memoir editor at SBS Voices, where she also hosted the award-winning literary podcasts Let Me Tell You and The New Writers’ Room. From 2020–23 she served as a judge for the SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition, which produced the anthologies Roots, Emergence, and Between Two Worlds.
Her books include the critically acclaimed memoir Desi Girl: On Feminism, Race, Faith and Belonging and Safar: Muslim Women’s Stories of Travel and Transformation (both 2022). She has twice judged the Douglas Stewart NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, most recently as chair, and currently serves as a judge for the UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-Represented Writers.
She currently teaches creative writing and non-fiction at university, and is a freelance columnist and narrative non-fiction writer for The Guardian. She has also delivered her sold-out Writing Memoir course for Writing NSW, the Australian Society of Authors, and the Singapore Writers Festival, and is a frequent guest and moderator at literary festivals and events across Australia.