![]() ![]() She also became a member of a gay organization named United Lesbians of Color for Change Inc. She moved to New York City in 1977 and immersed herself in poetry. Sapphire held various jobs before starting her writing career, working as a performance artist, a social worker, and a teacher of reading and writing. She attended City College of New York and obtained her master's degree at Brooklyn College. Sapphire dropped out of high school, moved to San Francisco where she enrolled in City College of San Francisco, only to drop out and become a “hippie”. After a disagreement over where the family would live, the family parted ways, with Sapphire’s mother "kind of abandon them". She was one of four children of an Army couple who moved all over the world. ![]() Sapphire was born Ramona Lofton in Fort Ord, California. Ramona Lofton, known professionally as Sapphire, is an American author and performance poet.
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