Sophie is currently finishing her first novel and her honors history thesis. Her writing can be viewed on Substack. Her 'Rock Opera 101' series of video essays can be viewed here.
Publications
Essays
- "There Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Then There is Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights" (Luna Negra, 2025)
- "Damage Control for a Walking Corpse" (Love Ain't For Keeping, 2025)
- "Eulogy for Mister Reid" (Love Ain't For Keeping, 2025)
- "Blood Stains, Shame and Life after Death" (The Kent Stater, 2024)
- "On Ageism and the Generation Gap" (The Kent Stater, 2024)
- "Femininity and the Human Experience" (The Kent Stater, 2024)
Rock Opera 101
- "A Brief Rumination on the 'Concept Album' and the Sixties" (Rock Opera 101, 2025)
- "From Showtunes to Melodrama: Storytelling and Poetry in Sixties Pop" (Rock Opera 101, 2025)
- "On Three Early Rock Operas: 'A Teenage Opera', 'Simon Simopath', and 'The Magic Garden'" (Rock Opera 101, 2025)
Short stories
- "The Animal Self" (Luna Negra 28, Spring 2025)
Poetry
- "Against" (Crayfish 2, Fall 2025)
- "Future Shock" (Brainchild 10, Spring 2023)
Awards
- Kent State University History Department
Kent, Ohio
Gold Pen Award - 2024 - "The Sounds of White Supremacy: Scholarship in Review" - Wick Poetry Center
Kent, Ohio
Honors Poetry Competition - 2022 - "Future Shock"