William Sieghart (born in England) is a British publisher, charity founder, and poetry advocate who founded the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 1992, establishing one of the most prestigious annual prizes in British poetry. He is the chair of Forward Arts Foundation. He compiled the anthology Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry and the popular volume The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul (Particular Books, 2017), which draws on poetry as a tool for emotional and psychological health. He is a former chairman of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts and received a CBE for services to the arts in 2017.