93. Interview with author and illustrator Sarah Firth

Let's Talk SciComm

Welcome to Season 13 of Let’s Talk SciComm. We’re so thrilled to be kicking off another season as we head towards our 100th episode!

To get the season off to a fabulous start, this week we’re thrilled to talk with the incredible Sarah Firth (she/ her). Sarah is based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne, Australia. She is an artist, writer, cartoonist, graphic recorder and animator, originally trained as a classical sculptor. She has received a Talking Difference Fellowship from the Immigration Museum, was a finalist in the Incinerator Gallery Award For Social Change and her comics were part of Eisner Award-winning and Ignatz nominated comic anthologies. Her debut graphic novel Eventually Everything Connects was shortlisted for The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024, selected as The Age’s Non-Fiction Pick of The Week, ALIA’s Notable Graphic Novels of 2023 and one of The Best Graphic Novels Ever by Refinery29.

You can buy Sarah’s brilliant book Eventually Everything Connects in Australia/ NZ here: http://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/daGy9Q

And in US/UK/Europe here:

https://www.graphicmundi.org/books/978-1-63779-068-7.html

You can follow Sarah and learn more about her work here:

https://www.instagram.com/sarahthefirth/

http://www.sarahthefirth.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahthefirth/

https://www.facebook.com/SarahTheFirthCreativeServices

https://twitter.com/sarahthefirth

https://www.tiktok.com/@sarahthefirth

Transcript: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/om98