Sarah Wright

Sarah Wright is Professor and Future Fellow in Geography and Development Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She works in critical development studies, with a focus on geographies of weather, and Indigenous and postcolonial geographies. She is part of two Indigenous-led research collectives in Australia, the Bawaka Collective and Yandaarra, and has worked with Filipino social movements for 25 years. She lives with her family on Gumbaynggirr Country on the mid-north coast NSW in...See more

Sarah Wright is Professor and Future Fellow in Geography and Development Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She works in critical development studies, with a focus on geographies of weather, and Indigenous and postcolonial geographies. She is part of two Indigenous-led research collectives in Australia, the Bawaka Collective and Yandaarra, and has worked with Filipino social movements for 25 years. She lives with her family on Gumbaynggirr Country on the mid-north coast NSW in Australia. Her collaborative writing has won several awards including the NSW Premier's History Awards (2022, with Yandaarra) and the Prime Minister's Literary award for non-fiction (2020, with the Bawaka Collective as Gay'wu Group of Women) and been shortlisted for the Chief Minister's NT Book Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2020, with the Bawaka Collective as Gay'wu Group of Women) and the National Book Award of the Philippines (2019 with Diosa Labiste). See less