Sarah Laing

Sarah Laing
Born 1973 (age 44–45)
Champaign-Urbana, USA
Language English
Residence Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealander
Genre Cartoons, illustration, poetry, fiction
Notable works Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics, Mansfield and Me: a Graphic Memoir
Website
Blog, Let Me Be Frank

Sarah Laing (born 1973) is a New Zealand author and cartoonist.

Background

Laing was born in 1973 in Champaign-Urbana, USA and grew up in Palmerston North, New Zealand. As a teenager she moved to Wellington and has also lived in Germany, New York, and Auckland. She is currently based in Wellington.[1]

Career

Laing has a background in graphic design and worked as an illustrator.[1] She illustrated Macaroni Moon, a children's poetry book by Paula Green.[2]

In 2007 she published her first collection of short stories, Coming up Roses.[3] Her first novel Dead People’s Music was published in 2009.[4] She is also the author of the short story ebook Inside a Pomegranate.[1]

Following her time at the Sargeson Centre, she published The Fall of Light, a graphically illustrated novel.[1][5]

In 2016 she published the memoir Mansfield and Me: a Graphic Memoir (Victoria University Press), using the life and work of Katherine Mansfield to reflect on her own experiences.[1]

With Rae Joyce and Indira Neville, Laing is the co-author of Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics.[6][7]

Awards

In 2006, Laing won the 2006 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition.[8]

Laing was a writer in resident at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2008 and 2013.[9] With Sonja Yelich she received the 2010 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship.[10]

Mansfield and Me: a Graphic Memoir was long listed in the Illustrated non-fiction catergoy of the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[11]

Novels

  • Coming Up Roses (short stories), 2007
  • Dead People's Music, 2009
  • The Fall of Light, 2013

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Sarah Laing". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Laing, Sarah (2009). Macaroni Moon. Random House. ISBN 9781869791513.
  3. ↑ Laing, Sarah (2007). Coming up Roses. Random House. ISBN 9781869419202.
  4. ↑ Laing, Sarah (2009). Dead People's Music. Random House. ISBN 9781869791087.
  5. ↑ Laing, Sarah (2013). The Fall of Light. Vintage. ISBN 9781775533030.
  6. ↑ "Three Words: an introduction". Three Words. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  7. ↑ Joyce, Rae; Laing, Sarah; Neville, Indira (2016). Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics. Beatnik. ISBN 9780994120502.
  8. ↑ "Top New Zealand novelist Sarah Laing says winning Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards was 'pivotal'". Stuff. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  9. ↑ "Sarah Laing". Writers in Residence. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship". Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "2017 Awards Longlist". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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