SOPHIA ZHAO
BIO
Sophia Zhao (she/her) is a writer whose poetry and short fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Small Wonders, among others. Her debut novel, Sleeping Beasts, is forthcoming from Orbit in 2027. Outside of writing, Sophia enjoys reading (big surprise :)), spending time with her two cats, and searching for the perfect friendship-ending board game.
I am open to mentoring Adult and YA (crossover) in literary and speculative fiction (SFF, Horror). Please find below a more detailed MSWL.
MSWL
I don't know what I'll like until I see it!
- I tend to gravitate towards: Speculative projects with a literary bent (and vice versa), character-driven stories with social commentary, unusual narrative structures
- Some favorites include: The Minimalist (Pedersen), These Violent Delights (Nemerever), The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Jones), The Song of Achilles (Miller), Our Wives Under the Sea (Armfield), The Spear Cuts Through Water (Jimenez), The Book Thief (Zusak), Six of Crows (Bardugo), "Story of Your Life" (Chiang), "The Paper Menagerie" (Liu), "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Poe), "A Myth of Devotion" (Glück), "A Little Closer Though, If You Can, for What Got Lost Here" (Phillips), "Half-Light" (Bidart), Moonlight (Jenkins), Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata), Anatomy of a Fall (Triet), Get Out (Peele), Flow (Zilbalodis), Andor (Gilroy), ATLA (DiMartino + Konietzko), Murderbot (Weitz + Weitz)