Biography

Sarah St Vincent Welch is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Canberra in Creative Writing, and has also run writing workshops for many different groups in the community. Her work is published mainly in independent magazines and anthologies, and she has also worked as an editor.

She studied English Literature at the University of Sydney and Media at the University of Canberra. Her research area is the short story and the novel, and she is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Arts and Design. Her thesis – Figuring and refiguring representations of pregnant women in Australian women’s contemporary fiction explores ideas about the body in fiction and philosophy. Cultural heritage and film are also areas she continues to explore. She worked in film preservation for a decade, specialising in preserving silver nitrate film.

In 2011 she won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence for a Sessional Tutor / Demonstrator, and a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

She is co-editor of the short story anthologies Time Pieces and The Circulatory System, with Craig Cormick, published by Ginninderra Press. She is co-editor of the community history The Pearly Griffin: the story of the Old Griffin Centre, with Lizz Murphy, which was commissioned by the ACT Department of Disability, Community Services and Housing. She also is co-editor of FIRST: 2008 Surrender, an anthology of creative writing by students at the University of Canberra, with Francesca Rendle-Short.
She won the Jessie Litchfield Award for Literature 1995, and the Marian Eldridge Award for an aspiring female writer in 1998. She won the Marjorie-Graber McInnes Short Story Competition twice. She received an Australia Council Grant as an Emerging Writer in 2005 to write a collection of short stories about the experience of pregnancy. In 2008 she received a mentorship through the Australian Society of Authors to complete this collection.

http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/1999/nov99/Supplement_Story-14.pdf

http://www.altc.edu.au/award-outstanding-contributions-recipient-2011-ms-sarah-welch

http://www.textjournal.com.au/april08/davis_welch.htm