SOFIA M CATANZARO is a writer and educator based in New York. She graduated from Smith College in 2024 with a B.A. in English Literature and Film and Media Studies with High Honors in Creative Writing. She spent her junior year studying Scottish Literature and the Letters of Paul at the University of Edinburgh. She is also a member of Ethical Culture Fieldston School's class of 2020. Since graduating from Smith College, you can find her teaching English as a Second Language at Manhattan University, running the Clairmont Creative Arts Collective, or reading on the train. She is currently writing a novel based on her family history set in Tandil, Argentina, which focuses on themes of inheritance, immigration, and isolation.

Publications:: Premonitory Last Rites for My Father and Dispossession // Emulate Magazine (2024); The Most Beautiful Boy in the World // Milk Press (2023); Our House // The Freshwater Review (Print) (2023); Stormy Weather Over the City // BarBar Magazine (2023); Multiple Poems // Eunoia Review (2022); The House // Rookie Magazine (2017)

Awards:: High Honors in English Literature, Creative Writing - Smith College (2024); Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize - Smith College (2024); Rose Warner Prize - The Freshwater Review (2023); BarBar Editor's Choice Award Finalist - Barbar Magazine (2023); Scholastic Art and Writing Award - Fiction (2019); Scholastic Art and Writing Award - Poetry (2018)

Performances:: New York Poetry Festival 2023 Featured Poet; New York Poetry Festival 2025 Stage Host

sofiamcatanzaro@gmail.com