Sophie Buchaillard is the author of two novels, and an array of non-fiction essays about migration, memory, motherhood, nature, nurture, and sustainability. One of her poems was recently nominated for the International Bridport Poetry Prize, which encouraged her to collate a small pamphlet, which will emerge in the autumn. Meanwhile, her third novel, set between Wales, the Netherlands, and Norway in a not too distant future, is quietly growing.
Her most recent novel, Assimilation (Honno) has been described as ‘thriller meets magic realism’. Her debut, This Is Not Who We Are (Seren Books), was shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award and the Wales Book of the Year.
Sophie is Translation Board Member for The Other Side of Hope, a magazine showcasing the writing of refugees and migrants, and has contributed essays about migration in Woman’s Wales? edited by Emma Schofield (Parthian, 2024) and the travel writing collection edited by Steven Lovatt: An Open Door: New Travel Writing for A Precarious Century (Parthian, 2022), as well as the ByLine Times, the Agenda, Wales Arts Review and the Other Side of Hope.
Her book reviews and other essays have also appeared in Square Wheel Press, Nation.Cymru, the Friday Poem and Modron.
Sophie facilitates workshops in libraries, museums, atypical spaces, and at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre. She is available to book for group or individual sessions, via her website. A former Hay Writer at Work, she holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from Cardiff University where she used to teach, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy,
