Sarah Laing

In 2019 she published Let Me Be Frank (Victoria University Press), an anthology of her comics dating back to 2010, in which she documented the breakdown of her marriage. Again, a UK edition was published by Lightning Books.

Mansfield and Me: a Graphic Memoir was long listed in the Illustrated non-fiction category of the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

In 2016 she published the memoir Mansfield and Me: a Graphic Memoir (Victoria University Press), using the life and work of Katherine Mansfield to reflect on her own experiences; it was described as "part biography of Katherine Mansfield, part autobiography, and part account of her nagging insecurity about her own abilities." The Times Literary Supplement said of the UK edition (Lightning Books): "Her watercolour-washed drawings delight us."

With Rae Joyce and Indira Neville, Laing was the co-editor of Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics, published in 2016.

Laing was a writer in resident at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2008 and 2013. With Sonja Yelich she received the 2010 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship.

In 2007 she published her first collection of short stories, Coming up Roses. Her first novel, Dead People’s Music, was published in 2009. She is also the author of the short story ebook Inside a Pomegranate.

In 2006, Laing won the 2006 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition.

Sarah Laing (born 1973) is a New Zealand author and cartoonist.

Laing was born in 1973 in Champaign-Urbana, USA and grew up in Palmerston North, New Zealand. As a teenager she moved to Wellington and has also lived in Germany, New York, and Auckland. She is currently based in Wellington.