Sarah Barr is the pen-name of Sarah Steele who writes poetry and fiction and teaches creative writing. Sarah lives in Dorset with her husband. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies including The Templar Press Anthology 2016; The Bridport Prize anthologies 2010 and 2016; Poems from the Oak Room; Second Place Rosette (Emma Press, 2018); Seven; and in magazines including The Frogmore Papers; The London Reader; The Interpreter’s House; Other Poetry; South, Poems in the Waiting Room, and online on the Poetry Society website; Meniscus; And Other Poems. Poems for children have appeared in various anthologies and magazines including in The Caterpillar.
 
Sarah often writes about relationships, including our relationship with the natural world. She is interested in psychological, social and environmental issues. Her poems have won prizes including 1st in The Frogmore Prize 2015, 2nd in The Poetry on the Lake open competition 2018, and have been placed and shortlisted on a number of occasions in the Bridport Prize.
 
Sarah read English at London University, has an MSc in sociology and social policy, an MA in creative writing and a post-graduate teaching certificate for over-16s and adults. She was featured poet in South 43. She trained and worked as a counsellor and has worked as a creative writing tutor for The Open University for fifteen years. Sarah runs a thriving writing group in Wimborne and is Poetry Society stanza rep in Dorset. She leads writing workshops in libraries, museums, at literary festivals and for particular groups, gives readings, selects poetry for magazines and occasionally judges competitions. She recently trained and started work as a poet in Memory Cafes.