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About Sarah
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I was born in Glasgow, but moved to
Manchester as a young child and lived there until I left for Oxford
at eighteen (the first time I’d been to the south of England,
except for occasional daytrips to London). It was a northern
childhood, revolving around home in south Manchester, grandparents in
rural Yorkshire and weekends spent climbing mountains in the Lake
District, and these are still the landscapes that feel like home.
I spent ten years in Oxford, taking a
BA, Master of Studies and D.Phil in English Literature and then held a
postdoctoral research fellowship. I developed my two main research
interests, in the literature of the far north and in food and
material culture in fiction, specializing in the Romantic and early
Victorian periods. I was a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the
University of Kent from 2004 – 2009, when Cold Earth was
published and I took a year’s leave and went to teach at the University of Iceland. At the end of that year, I was appointed
Senior Lecturer in Literature and Place at Exeter University’s Cornwall Campus, where I taught courses on various kinds of writing
about nature and place.
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