Saskia Beudel is a writer and critic.

She was awarded a Copyright Agency Fellowship for Non-Fiction Writing and a Creative Australia grant to complete her fourth book Peaking: One Hundred and Eleven Days on Two Wheels (May 2026).

She is the author of non-fiction works A Country in Mind: Memoir with Landscape and (with Jill Bennett) Curating Sydney, and the novel Borrowed Eyes. Her books have been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, a Dobbie Award and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Her essays, reviews and scholarly articles are published nationally and internationally.

Her essays appear in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Best Australian Essays, HEAT and The Iowa Review.

Saskia’s reviews appear in The Saturday Paper, Australian Book Review, ABR Arts, Sydney Review of Books, Artist Profile, Kill Your Darlings and Artlink.

Her scholarly articles are published in TEXT Journal and in international collections Expeditionary Anthropology (Berghahn), Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (Routledge) and Fieldwork for Future Ecologies (Onomatopee).

She has held several research fellowships including at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society in Munich (a joint initiative of the Ludwig Maximilian University and the Deutsches Museum) and at the University of Edinburgh.

 **

‘What a riveting and illuminating book! Peaking moves with agile grace between memoir, history, art and the natural world in this far-reaching meditation on testing the body. It’s brilliant on exhilaration and fear – and everything else Saskia Beudel encounters along her way.’ Michelle de Kretser