Sarah Day has written nine collections of poems. Her books have received the Anne Elder and Queensland Premier’s Award and Wesley Michel Wright Prizes, and have been shortlisted for the NSW, Tasmanian Premier’s, and Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Her Selected Poems (Arc UK, 2002) received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation). She was poetry editor of Island Magazine for seven years. She has taught creative writing courses over thirty-five years, has collaborated with musicians, and judged national poetry, fiction, and nature-writing competitions. She was invited to the Festival de Poesie in Paris in 2001 and in 2006 and has been a guest at many of Australia’s literary festivals, including Melbourne, Mildura, Salamanca, Byron Bay, and Adelaide Writers Weeks. She has also been a guest at King’s Lynn Festival in England and at the University of Lisbon. Her poems have been put to music by British and Australian composers. She lives in lutruwita Tasmania where she is a strong supporter of the environment and a dedicated member of Coast Care on the south-east coast. Her latest collection is Slack Tide, (Pitt Street Poetry, 2022). Her poem, The Orphan, was shortlisted in 2025 for the Peter Porter Prize.