About
Sophie Buchaillard is the author of This Is Not Who We Are (Seren Books, 2022), her debut novel, and a contributor to An Open Door: New Travel Writing for a Precarious Century, edited by Steven Lovatt (Parthian, 2022).
Her creative writing has appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including The Other Side of Hope, Square Wheel Press and Murmurations; her essays feature in The Byline Times, The Institute of Welsh Affairs' Agenda and the Wales Arts Review.
Sophie has worked as a policy advisor and a campaigner. In 2016, she co-authored Talented Women for a Successful Wales, a report making recommendations to the Welsh Government on improving gender parity in business and education. Now a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she splits her time between writing, tutoring in creative writing at Cardiff Uni, and co-hosting the literary podcast @Writers_reading
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