Sarah Catherine Gait is a professional musician and self-taught poet and writer from rural Cumbria, Northern England. Having been educated at home by a classicist mother and scientist father, she pursues creative writing during her own time, as well as analytical writing. After gaining a Master of Music degree from the Royal Academy of Music, in which her research project presented and reported on small-scale pop-up classical music concerts in deprived areas of rural Northern England, Sarah now pursues a career as a freelance musician and composer. Sarah’s varied writing portfolio includes an appointment as freelance programmer writer to the BBC Proms Publication Team, librettist for a musical, and author of over a hundred poems, inspired by her own experiences and roots in a poor yet academic rural background. Of particular importance to Sarah is the natural world and our human relationship with it. She is a fervent admirer of the mountains and lakes where she grew up, and an advocate of the need for respect and preservation of our natural home, as well as its other non-human inhabitants. In the musical sphere, Sarah’s creative work in tandem with, or inspired by, the natural world, has received awards from organizations such as the Royal Philharmonic Society (UK) and MDW ISA Digital Award Vienna (Austria).
