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Sarah Armstrong BiographySarah was born in Sydney, Australia in 1968 and grew up in the New South Wales towns of Armidale, Gosford and Newcastle. Her family had no TV for most of her childhood and she was a prolific (if somewhat undiscerning) reader. The Armstrongs' weekly trips to the local library were legendary.
At fifteen Sarah went to live in Argentina for a year as an exchange student. She lived in the foothills of the Andes with a family who spoke no English.
After graduating from Mitchell College, Bathurst with a BA in Communications, she joined ABC Radio as a trainee journalist, working on the flagship current affairs programs AM, The World Today and PM. In 1993 she won Australia's premier journalistic award, the Walkley, for a radio feature on diggers returning to Gallipoli.
She joined ABC TV's Foreign Correspondent program as a researcher and field producer. Highlights of her time with Foreign Correspondent include an audience with Libya's Colonel Gadaffi, landing in the sub-Saharan town of Timbuktu in a sand storm and swimming in a jellyfish lake in Palau.
In 1997 she realised that the demands of journalism would always keep her from writing seriously so she resigned from the ABC and moved to the beautiful sub-tropical north coast of New South Wales. The year she moved into a small rustic cabin in an overgrown rainforest valley it rained relentlessly for several months, providing inspiration for her first novel. 'Salt Rain' was published in Australasia by Allen & Unwin in 2004 and by MacadamCage in North America in 2006.
One of her short stories, 'The Long Wet', has been made into a short film by Tristan Bancks, a Byron Bay filmmaker. An Australian film production company has bought the rights to make a film of her novel 'Salt Rain'.
Sarah teaches weekly writing classes and Writing and Yoga workshops around Australia and in Bali.
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