Sophie Pierce is a writer based on Dartmoor, with a passionate interest in our emotional connection to natural landscapes. Her memoir, The Green Hill: Letters to a son (Unbound, March 2023), explores this in the context of traumatic bereavement. Her next book, co-written with Alex Murdin, will be Rock Idols: A Guide to Dartmoor in 28 Tors (Wild Things Publishing, April 2025). Sophie’s essays have been published in The Clearing (Little Toller Books) and Caught by the River. Sophie is also the co-author, with Matt Newbury, of five wild swimming guides; the latest, Wild Swimming Walks Exmoor and North Devon came out in April 2024. Until 2020 she was a radio and TV reporter for BBC South West, and had a varied career spanning over 20 years, covering stories on everything from natural disasters through to political scandals and skateboarding ducks. In October 2022 Sophie co-led a residential memoir course with fellow writer Tanya Shadrick, for the literary charity the Charles Causley Trust.
Recent Publications
- Rock Idols: A Guide to Dartmoor in 28 Tors - Wild Things Publishing, 2025
- Wild Swimming Walks Exmoor - Wild Things Publishing, 2024
- Wild Swimming Torbay - Wild Things Publishing, 2023
- Wild Swimming Walks Dorset and East Devon - Wild Things Publishing, 2022
- Wild Swimming Walks Cornwall - Wild Things Publishing, 2021
- Wild Swimming Walks Dartmoor and South Devon - Wild Things Publishing, 2016
