Sarah Cox

Author & journalist

Sarah Cox is an award-winning author and journalist based in Victoria, B.C. 
 
Sarah’s new book, Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction, will be published on April 16, 2024. 
 
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 an investigative reporter for The Narwhal, where she writes about energy and environmental issues and is a guest speaker for events. Learn more about Sarah.
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

  • "Cox delivers science journalism of the highest order, presented with passionate intensity and relentless curiosity.”

    - The Georgia Straight

  • "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