Sarah Murray was raised in West Auckland, where she still lives with her husband and two young children. An award-winning feature writer - currently working freelance - she has been a journalist for over 10 years on some of New Zealand’s leading publications. She has held roles as beauty editor, feature writer and deputy editor on titles such as Sunday magazine, NEXT and Fashion Quarterly and has written for the Sunday Star-Times, Stuff, Canvas magazine, Metro magazine and many others. 

Sarah recently completed the Masters of Creative Writing at The University of Auckland and is continuing to work on her manuscript - a collection of personal non-fiction essays based on growing up in an Irish Catholic family in West Auckland. 

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