Sarah Cox is an award-winning author and environmental journalist. Her reporting for The Narwhal garnered a Science Media Centre of Canada and the Canadian Association of Journalists’ Award for Environmental & Climate Change Reporting, a World Press Freedom Award and the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism. Sarah also shared a Gold Digital Publishing Award with her colleagues at The Narwhal and previously won two Western Magazine Awards. Sarah is currently the biodiversity reporter for The Tyee.
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 was a finalist for a Lane Anderson Award for science writing and a City of Victoria Book Prize.
Her first 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) and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature.
Sarah’s articles and opinion pieces have appeared in numerous publications, including The Narwhal, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Reader’s Digest, Georgia Straight, the Tyee, and BESIDE. Sarah is also a frequent guest speaker for podcasts, radio shows, conferences and webinars.
Sarah is based in Victoria, B.C. She is grateful to live and work on the territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples.