Saffron Roberts

Saffron Roberts is a graduate of the HarperCollins AuthorAcademy 2025. After almost a decade in Scotland, where she worked for various charities, she returned to Yorkshire. Holding a Research Master’s degree in Gender and Culture from The University of Edinburgh focused on the construction of feminine selfhood and sisterhood in contemporary women’s writing has influenced her own stories. In 2026, she won the First 500 prize at the Writers of the North ‘Leeds Writing Festival’.