Sapphire Allard is a writer and creative writing facilitator based in Eastbourne, East Sussex. She holds a BA in English with Creative Writing, an MA in Human Rights Culture and Justice Studies and a PhD in Research as Creative Practice. Sapphire has worked extensively and broadly as an educator in many different settings, from SEN primary schools, to supporting Deaf young adults in sixth form and working with vulnerable adults in drug and alcohol rehabilitation centres. She now teaches creative writing both at her house and in numerous Adult Education settings.

Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, nominated for the Best of the Net and published in numerous literary magazines including Ambit and The Selkie. Her poetry has been published in a variety of literary magazines and recently in two anthologies from Sunday Mornings at The River. Her poem ‘I’m Flicking Past News Stories Like Men on Dating Apps’ won second place in the Poetry Edit’s 2024 competition and was played on Poetry’s Dead podcast.

Sapphire is an active member of Na’amod, a Jewish led organisation advocating for an end to occupation and settler violence in Palestine, and her creative work is often engaged with the cross-over of the political and the personal. She is currently working on a poetry collection about the intersection of motherhood and grief.