Bio

Sarah Fox is a Seattle author, historian, mother, and mostly-retired waitress. She is currently an adjunct faculty in Environmental Policy and Decision Making at University of Puget Sound, and a PhD candidate in History at the University of British Columbia, where she was named a Killam Doctoral Scholar. Fox holds a Master’s Degree in History and Folklore from Utah State University and a Bachelors Degree in American Studies from the Evergreen State College.  Her work has appeared in the Western Historical Quarterly, Environmental History, The Sixties: a Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, The Southern California Quarterly, and Montana: The Magazine of Western History.  Her first book, Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West, was published by University of Nebraska Press in November 2014. A paperback edition of Downwind was released in September 2018.

Sarah serves on the board of CORE-Hanford, which seeks to “advance and disseminate understanding of the human toll of exposure to ionizing radiation from uranium mining, milling, or transport; nuclear weapons production, testing or use in warfare; nuclear reactor offsite releases and related radiation exposures.” Fox continues to gather testimonies documenting the experiences of people in the western United States living with the impacts of radiological exposure. She speaks on Downwind regularly to students, community groups, book clubs, and nonprofits, and teaches classes and workshops on her methodology as a writer and researcher.