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Sonja’s writing has been honored
with a NYFA Fellowship, an Iowa Review Award, Pushcart Prize
nomination, and grants from Vermont Studio Center and The Deming Fund
for Women. Her work has appeared in some of the country's finest
literary journals, including the Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,
Southeast Review, AGNI, the Spoon River Poetry Review, BREVITY, Gulf
Coast, and is anthologized in several texts on writing, including SHORT
TAKES, THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER, and THE CURIOUS WRITER. Sonja holds an
MFA from the University of New Orleans and an M.S. Ed. from SUNY
Brockport. She runs writing workshops locally, provides manuscript consultations, and teaches in UCLA Extension's Writing Program.

Sonja's first book, GHOSTBREAD, won an AWP Book Prize for Nonfiction.

Besides writing, Sonja enjoys snapping photos, hiking in bogs, and is
currently hooked on English murder mysteries. She was born and raised
in western New York State, where she now lives with her two overweight
tabbies and her husband, the artist Jim Mott.