Sarah Reynolds is an award-winning bilingual writer, working in both English and Welsh.
Originally from Surrey, she moved to west Wales in 2009 and learned Welsh. Since then, she has published novels, short stories, radio drama and creative non-fiction in both languages, with much of her work exploring questions of language, identity, belonging and the ways stories shape our understanding of place.
Her short story Catch of the Day won the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition, and its Welsh-language film adaptation, Helfa'r Heli, won the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Short Film. Her BBC Radio Cymru drama Lliwiau'r Symffoni (Painting the Symphony) was shortlisted by BBC Writersroom before being produced for broadcast. Her English-language novel Traces of Alys, published by Honno in 2026, was runner-up in the Bridport Novel Prize and longlisted for the Curtis Brown Novel Prize.
Alongside her creative work, Sarah is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Swansea University. Before entering academia, she spent many years working in television production and development, experience that continues to influence her storytelling across page, stage and screen.
Whether writing literary fiction, radio drama or stories rooted in contemporary Wales, Sarah is drawn to characters caught between languages, cultures and identities. Her work combines emotional depth with a strong sense of place, often asking how language can shape who we become.
She lives in Carmarthenshire with her family.
Sarah Reynolds is an award-winning bilingual writer, working in both English and Welsh.
Originally from Surrey, she moved to west Wales in 2009 and learned Welsh. Since then, she has published novels, short stories, radio drama and creative non-fiction in both languages, with much of her work exploring questions of language, identity, belonging and the ways stories shape our understanding of place.
In 1995, 15-year-old Emma sends her parents a bunch of flowers and disappears. Her best friend Kate blames herself. The same night in west Wales, Idris and his son find a crashed car, a teenage girl and a man trying to kill her. The girl can’t remember who she is. Their neighbour says it’s her missing...
Llyfr o gyfres Amdani, ar gyfer Dysgwyr Lefel Uwch. Mae Katie newydd symud i Gymru gyda'i gwr newydd, Dylan. Yn ôl Dylan roedden nhw am fyw mewn ty enfawr, ond mae pethau'n mynd o chwith ac mae'n rhaid i'r ddau symud i fyw gyda'i rieni ef. Sut fydd teulu Dylan yn ymdopi gyda Saesnes hollol ddi-glem yn eu plith? A book for Welsh learners,...
Mae Siwan yn actores. Wel, mae hi’n ‘gorffwys’ ar hyn o bryd, ac yn y cyfamser, mae hi’n ennill ei thamaid fel tiwtor Cymraeg. Dyma’i hanes hi a’i grŵp hynod amrywiol o ddysgwyr; rhai’n dda a rhai...ychydig yn wahanol i’r arfer.
Ond mae mwy na gwersi iaith yn y nofel hon. Cewch ryfeddu at hanesion nosweithiau mawr, troeon trwstan, priodas hoyw ar...
Fel person sy’n profi synesthesia, mae Lowri yn clywed y byd mewn symffoni o liw. A hyd yn oed ar ôl ei marwolaeth, mae hi’n benderfynol y bydd y bobl mae hi’n eu caru hefyd yn mwynhau byd llawn lliw.
As a person who experiences synesthesia, Lowri hears the world as a symphony of colours. And even after her death, she is determined that the people she loves will also be able to enjoy a world full of colour.
Lisa is moving to Wales with her partner, Iwan. Iwan’s plane is delayed and Lisa finds herself abandoned on his family’s hillside farm, with only Iwan’s father, Dat, for company.
When Lisa reaches out to Dat in his own language, these two lonely people make an unlikely connection.