Sophie is currently finishing her first novel and her honors history thesis. Much of her writing can be viewed on Substack. Her 'Rock Opera 101' series of video essays can be viewed here.

Publications

Essays

• 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)

Reviews

• Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein: Potential, Merciless Potential (Luna Negra, 2025)
• There Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Then There is Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights (Luna Negra, 2025)
• DEVOtional: This Year’s Menagerie of Mutants (Kentcore, 2023)

Rock Opera 101

• A Brief Rumination on the 'Concept Album' and the Sixties (2025)
• From Showtunes to Melodrama:
  Storytelling and Poetry in Sixties Pop (2025)
• On Three Early Rock Operas: 'A Teenage Opera',
  'Simon Simopath', and 'The Magic Garden' (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 English Department
  Kent, Ohio
  Engleman Creative Writing Award (honorable mention) - 2025 - Wildflowers (short story)
• Kent State University History Department
  Kent, Ohio
  Gold Pen Award - 2025 - "'Beautiful Distractions': Dichotomies of Femininity under the Third Reich"
• 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"