Sophie Buchaillard is a freelance writer, novelist and poet who writes about social injustice from a female perspective. Inspired by images, memory, and movement, she explores the themes of identity and belonging, in response to experiences of fragmentation. Her non-fiction writing focuses on travel, the visual arts, food, sustainable fashion and the environment. 

Her second novel Assimilation (Honno, 2024) explores how travel, memory and family stories shape who we are. Her debut novel This Is Not Who We Are (Seren Books) was shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award and the Wales Book of the Year 2023.

Her short stories and essays have appeared in a wide array of literary magazines and newspapers, including Wales Arts Review, ByLine Times, Murmuration Magazine, The Friday Poem, and the ecological magazine Modron.

Sophie also contributed to the essay collection edited by Emma Schofield Woman’s Wales? (Parthian, 2024), the travel writing collection edited by Steven Lovatt An Open Door: New Travel Writing for A Precarious Century (Parthian, 2022) and the COVID-inspired Square Wheel Press collection Together and Apart (2021).

One of her poems was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize in 2024.

Sophie also works as an editor and translator from French of literary fiction. She is Translation Board Member for The Other Side of Hope, an Arts Council England funded magazine showcasing the writing of refugees and immigrants.

She holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from Cardiff University, where she taught until 2024. She lives in Wales, having previously lived in France, Spain and the US.