Ramona Lofton (born August 4, 1950) better known by her pen name Sapphire, is an American author and performance poet. == Early life == Ramona Lofton was born in Fort Ord, California, one of four children of an Army couple who relocated within the United States and abroad. After a disagreement concerning where the family would settle, her parents separated, with Lofton's mother "kind of abandoning them". Lofton dropped out of high school and moved to San Francisco, where she attained a GED and…