Sarah Cox
Sarah Cox is an award-winning journalist and author based in Victoria. In 2002, she won the Environmental and Climate Change Award presented by the Science Media Centre of Canada and the Canadian Association of Journalists. Her investigative reporting has won the World Press Freedom Prize and the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Jackman Award. Cox is the author of Signs of Life: Field Notes from The Frontlines of Extinction and Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro, which won a B.C. Book Prize and was a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature.
Writers & Books
Videos
Sarah Cox on her award-nominated book “Breaching the Peace”
Award History
2018 - Finalist
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
forBreaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro
Jury Citation
"With beautiful writing and compelling storytelling, Sarah Cox brings us to the Indigenous territories and backyards of farmers on the frontlines of the fight to stop the construction of a hydroelectric dam in northern British Columbia. Breaching the Peace explores some of Canada’s most critical contemporary issues — climate change, renewable energy, Indigenous issues, and property rights. Cox elevates this story by taking readers around the globe, from Brazil to Ukraine to China, where other hydroelectric dams have deeply impacted communities. This is the gripping and extraordinary story of a community resisting a powerful Crown corporation to protect the Peace Valley." — 2018 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Jury (André Picard, Angela Sterritt, and Chris Turner)Program History
2026 - Selector
Rising Stars
Selection
Author Selected
Works Recognized by WT