Author

Sarah Krasnostein

Sarah Krasnostein is a writer and a lawyer with a doctorate in criminal law. A fourth generation American and a third generation Australian, she has lived and worked in both countries. Sarah’s narrative non-fiction is inspired by the invisible and marginalised worlds hinted at in the many criminal cases she has read over the past fifteen years. She lives in Melbourne and spends part of the year working in New York City. The Trauma Cleaner (Text Publishing / St Martin’s Press) is her first book. The Trauma Cleaner won the General Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2018 Australian Book Industry Award, and the Non-Fiction award and the Victorian Prize for Literature at the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. It won the Non-Fiction award at the 2019 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.