Sofia Fey

Sofia Fey is a Queer and Non-Binary writer living in LA. Currently, they are the founder/eic at Cabaret Contributor’s Journal, poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine, a reader for Stone of Madness Press and Kissing Dynamite, a columnist at The Poetry Question, and pursuing their Creative Writing MFA at Antioch University. Their poems have appeared in Hominum Journal, Sobotka Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Hominum Journal, and others. They are hoping to write for TV and publish a chapbook of their poetry

Life
Sofia Fey is from Grayslake, Illinois. They started writing poetry as soon as they can remember beginning to write. They didn't take themselves more seriously as a poet until their undergrad at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where they studied Playwriting; They took a poetry workshop or English lit class almost every semester and realized all of their writing forms bleed into one.

Goals
Sofia Fey hopes to write for TV, and teach. They acted in a professional theatre setting in Chicago for two years and moved to LA in the hopes of writing for tv. Their favorite shows are: Euphoria, Insecure, Normal People, the Queen's Gambit, and Pen15. All of which made them want to write for TV. They are currently working as a PA on various productions in LA and they are hoping to find an agent for screenwriting.

Inspirations
Their poetry influences started as Sharon Olds and Rita Dove and have grown to be Paige Lewis, Franny Choi, Aimee Nezhukamatathil, Shira Erlichman, Aeria D Matthews, Khadijah Queen, Danez Smith, Alison C Rollins, Tiana Clark, Safia Elhillo, and Eloisa Amezcua. Paige Lewis is their favorite poet and extremely important to them as a non-binary writer. Franny Choi's Parehelion: A History of Touch is their favorite poem. Their favroite musical artists are SZA, Mitski, Bad Bunny, Paramore, Megan Thee Stallion, St. Vincent, and Tinashe and they all inspire them but especially Mitski and their shared Scorpio Venushood.

Current Projects
Sofia founded and Co Hosts the Poetry Workshop called the Luminaries with Belinda Munyeza. Of this, they said "We meet a few times a month to have workshops, writing sessions, submission talks, etc. Some of my most notable contemporaries are Belinda Munyeza, Khalisa Rae, Gaia Rajan, Kathy Klimentowski, Jeni Prater, Kristin Lueke, Adriana Vaca, and Shira Erlichman (as I have taken In Surreal Life (her workshop) and take all of her classes when I can) I consider Shira one of my mentors."

Currently, they are studying for their MFA at Antioch University and plan to teach Poetry, Screenwriting, and Playwriting. They hope to publish poetry collections and get TV writing jobs here and there.