Sarah Hopkins is an Australian criminal lawyer and novelist. She is a lawyer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in Sydney and chairperson of Just Reinvest NSW. She is the author of three novels. The Crimes of Billy Fish was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her latest novel The Subjects explores an utopian alternative to the youth criminal justice system.

At Sydney Crime Writer Festival's What makes a criminal? event, Sarah joins a panel discussion with Tanya Bretherton, Gabrielle Duffy and Wendy Field.