Sarah Drummond is the author of Salt Story: Of Sea-dogs and Fisherwomen, a memoir and social history of commercial estuarine fishers. She has had essays and short fiction published in various journals and anthologies, including Purple Prose, The Best Australian Essays 2010 and Overland. Sarah brings her own knowledge of fishing the waters of the Great Southern Ocean, and her love of the region’s rich history, to her fiction writing. The Sound, based on historical fact, is her first novel.