Sarah Gilbert
Sarah Gilbert is a writer, producer and oral historian whose first book is Unconventional Women: the story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia.
BottomSarah Gilbert is a writer, producer and oral historian whose first book is Unconventional Women: the story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia.
BottomSarah Gilbert is a writer, producer and oral historian from Sydney. She began her career as a copy girl at News Ltd before moving to New York where she worked as a feature writer at the New York Post. She returned home to work as a reporter in current affairs television, but soon moved Argentina where she wrote for Lonely Planet and Time Out. Unconventional Women: the story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia is her first book.
Sarah’s writing has been published in the Sydney Review of Books, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Wall Street Journal and Marie Claire. She works as a writer/producer across documentary film, television and podcasting, with a particular focus on Australian history, and enjoys exploring the Oz lit back catalogue for her Books Revisited column at Galah magazine. Sarah lives in Darlinghurst with her husband and their two children.
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