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Sarah Vallance was born in Sydney. She graduated from City University of Hong Kong in 2013 with an MFA in creative writing. Her essays have earned her a Pushcart Prize. She has been published in the Gettysburg Review, the Sun, the Pinch, Asia Literary Review, and Post Road, among other places. Sarah was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard and holds a doctorate in government and public administration. She lives in Sydney with her wife and their three dogs and three cats. Prognosis is her first book.
Powerful in its depiction of the author's will to rise above the limitations of her disability... With a mission of giving voice to the voiceless, Vallance shares the little-understood experience of surviving a traumatic brain injury. -Kirkus Reviews Sarah Vallance was a PhD with a high-level career when a fall from a horse resulted in a traumatic brain injury that caused her IQ to plummet to 80. Given that she's written a beautiful new memoir, you know she's recovered-but her book is less about reaching that destination and more about learning to care for one's self and others. -Washington Post One of the most astonishing books I've read in a long time...A testament to the determination of the human spirit to just survive, and live. -Curve Magazine [This] inspirational story is a good reminder to fake it until you make it-and not let anyone else define your limitations. -The Advocate
