About Sarah Jane Butler

I’m a writer, river campaigner and citizen scientist, and live in rural Sussex just over the border from where I grew up in Kent, in the top of the river Medway catchment.

The natural world I live in almost always finds its way into my writing, and when people ask how I research it, I can only say that it’s part of my life.

My novel, Starling, came out with Fairlight Books in 2022. My second book, River Time, is about rivers and people through time, and will be published in 2028 by September Publishing.

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.