Sarah Cox is an award-winning author and journalist based in Victoria, B.C.
Sarah’s latest book, Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction, was published in 2024. It won a Book Award for B.C. Authors from the Sunshine Coast Editors & Writers Society and is shortlisted for a Lane Anderson Award for science writing and a City of Victoria Book Prize.
Her previous book, Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro, won a B.C. Book Prize and was a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (Writers’ Trust of Canada).
Sarah is a reporter and editor for The Narwhal, where she writes about Canada’s natural world. Learn more about Sarah.
Praise for Signs of Life
"Signs of Life combines whip-smart reporting with an in-depth knowledge of conservation science to produce a persuasive call to act before it is too late."
Suzanne Simard
Author of Finding the Mother Tree
Photo of Peace River Valley by Garth Lenz
Photo of Sarah Cox by Taylor Roades
Praise for Breaching the Peace
"With beautiful writing and compelling storytelling, Sarah Cox brings us to the Indigenous territories and backyards of farmers on the frontlines of the fight to stop the construction of a hydroelectric dam in northern British Columbia."
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Jury
"This long-overdue and excellent book illustrates how money and politics can override concerns about sustainability and the very real spiritual and emotional values that bind us to place."
David Suzuki