Biography

Sarah Fletcher is an American-British writer born in 1994. She is researching towards a PhD at Aberystwyth University in pain, and is working on a novel and her debut poetry collection. So watch this space! Her poetry has appeared in Poetry London, Poetry Review, The White Review, The Rialto, Bath Magg, the New Statesman, and other publications. 

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She started writing poetry at a young age. Her first poem was published in The London Magazine in 2009, and at fourteen she read her work at the Institute of Contemporary Arts for the launch. She was a two-time participant of the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize, placing 1st and then 2nd in 2012 and 2013, respectively. She was also a Foyle Young Poet.

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Her first pamphlet 'Kissing Angles' was published by Dead Ink Books in 2017, and was praised by Gillian Clarke as "a witty, sexy, bold collection from a new poet unafraid to look at powerful subjects with clear-eyes and humour".

Her second pamphlet 'Typhoid August' was published by Poetry Business/Smith|Doorstop as part of the New Poets Prize in 2019.  Her third and most recent, 'Caviar', was published in 2022 by Out-Spoken Press. She has also had a Legitimate Snack 'Office Poems' as part of Broken Sleep Books in 2019.

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She is currently researching towards a PhD on pain and creative language at Aberystwyth University, where she is interested in anything regarding cognition, pain and pain-like sensations, expression, and narrative.  She teaches at Aberystwyth University, and has run workshops with The Poetry School, The Writing Squad, and Poetry Business.