Hi! My name is Sophie. I’ve been writing and publishing creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essays, and satire for 15 years. My stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Hazlitt, Chatelaine, Outpost, McSweeney’s, The Globe and Mail, Today’s Parent, and Reader’s Digest, and audio versions of my work have aired on NPR and all over CBC Radio, CBC Television, as well as CBC’s online platforms. In 2018, I was nominated for a National Magazine Award and in 2023 I was the runner-up for the International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir. I spent many years as the head writer on various CBC shows such as q with Tom Power, GO! with Brent Bambury, and George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. For the past two years I’ve been the lead writer for Generation Dread, an online magazine that explores the intersection of climate crisis and mental health, founded by Dr. Britt Wray out of Stanford University. My first kids’ book, Katrina Hyena, about a laughing hyena who laughs at the wrong times, will be published in October 2024 by Owlkids Books.

Some recurring themes in my body of work are: grief and the way we talk about it, people’s interior lives, their connection and disconnection from self and others, intersectional feminism, environmental issues, social justice, travel, health, mental health, body image stuff, music, and dance.

I’m represented by Transatlantic literary agency and I live in Nelson, British Columbia, with my partner and our son.