Sofia Montrone is a writer from Los Angeles, California. She received her BA from Columbia University and graduated as salutatorian. She recently completed her MFA at the School of the Arts. Her fiction appears in Adroit, where it was a finalist for the 2021 Prose Prize, and has been nominated for the Henfield Prize. She is a former Editor-in-Chief of The Columbia Review and served as the 2022-23 Director for Columbia Artist/Teachers. She is currently at work on a novel.