Saskia Beudel is a writer and critic.

In 2022 she was awarded a Copyright Agency Fellowship for Non-Fiction Writing to complete her fourth book. She is the author of A Country in Mind and Curating Sydney (with Jill Bennett), 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.

Saskia’s critical work appears 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 edited collections Expeditionary Anthropology (Berghahn), Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (Routledge) and Fieldwork for Future Ecologies (Onomatopee, forthcoming 2022).

She held a University of Sydney Fellowship at Sydney College of the Arts (2013–2016) and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UNSW Art & Design (2011–2013). In 2016 she was a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society in Munich (a joint initiative of the Ludwig Maximilians University and the Deutsche Museum); and in 2018 she held an Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh.