Hello!
My name is Sophia.
I am a person who loves building relationships with others, reading as many books as I can, and thinking of creative ideas to make books better.
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I am merging into the publishing industry as the founder of the little things literary magazine, a Book Editor, and Marketing & Publicity Intern. Eventually, I hope to be an editor championing for diverse and exciting romance, fantasy, and coming-of-age YA novels.
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This is my portfolio of creative and journalistic writing, marketing content, and a book blog.
Publishing Work 2021-2025
Throughout my time at the University of Iowa, I have worked with various programs to publish art and literature. I was a Writing Assistant for Fools, an Artistic Editor for Snapshots, a Beta Reader for Cave Writing Magazine, an Editor for the 6th annual Iowa Chapbook Prize, a Poetry Editor (then Executive Editor) for earthwords: the undergraduate literary review, and a Fiction Reader for Brink Literary Journal.
Featured Works
From news stories highlighting book bans in Iowa to reviews of my favorite books, I've enjoyed my time writing and researching everything bookish. "5 Characters That Make You Want to Hug Them" is one of my favorite articles that I published with Bookstr as an editorial intern. "Camels, Caravans, and Cutting Hair" was a really fun review to write, and doing so helped me realize that Cress is my favorite book in The Lunar Chronicles. "Life as a Fairy Tale" is an original story of mine that I wrote taking inspiration from various fairy tale tropes—partially using and partially subverting them—and my own life.
The director of the University of Iowa's writing center recommended me as a reliable candidate to write and design the 2024 Out of Iowa newsletter. This was my first professional writing project, and I worked alongside Elana Walters to write various articles highlighting the English department's thriving community of writers, readers, teachers, and scholars. I had the pleasure of interviewing 31 people across the English department throughout the process as well as designing graphics on Canva.
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I would like to thank Daniel Khalastchi for his recommendation, Loren Glass and Tara Atkinson for their guidance and communication, and Elana Walters for being a wonderful and reliable coworker.
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