Sarah Terkaoui is of dual Middle East/ Irish heritage and lives in leafy SW London. Powerful and personal, her poems, photographs and artworks are embedded in the duality of her cultures. Through nuanced language, detailed observation and fine phrasing she considers in particular the nature of our relationships, focussing on love, loss and grief.

She has been shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Award 2022, and the Bridgeport Poetry Prize, commended for the Goldsmiths Poetry Festival and the Hippocrates Poetry Prize 2021, and longlisted for the Live Canon international poetry Prize 2021. Her work appears in anthologies of the latter two. Her poems have also been published in Fragmented Voices, Ink Sweat & Tears, Imposter, Green Ink Poetry, Lucent Dreaming, Propel, Porridge, The Storms, Visual Verse, Dreich and Wee Dreich. She has appeared as part of the Live Canon Lunchtime Readings series and the Poets for the Ukraine poem-a-thon fundraiser. She has an MA in Writing Poetry (Newcastle University/ Poetry School London) and edited Between the Lines: Newcastle University/ Poetry School creative writing/writing poetry MA anthology. 

Sarah is available to provide writing workshops and has been working with Marble Hill House, Twickenham (English Heritage) since 2023 to design and deliver poetry writing workshops.