Sarah Harley

Sarah Harley is a writer and high school teacher from the UK who helps refugee students tell their own stories. Her essays draw on lived experience navigating childhood trauma and PTSD, exploring memory, place, and resilience. Her work has appeared in Mud Season Review, Pithead Chapel, Litro, and West Trade Review.

Articles by Sarah Harley

The Oath I Took

Immigrants have always arrived this way: quietly, uncertainly, carrying their losses, adding their weight to the ground.
February 13, 2026