Sophie Klahr

Sophie Klahr is the author of Two Open Doors In a Field (Backwaters Press, 2023), and Meet Me Here At Dawn (YesYes Books). With Corey Zeller, she co-authored There is Only One Ghost in the World (FC2, 2023), winner of the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest.Her poems can be read in publications such at The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Poetry London, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Originally a dancer, her interdisciplinary works include creating scenic texts for dance theatre and choreography for performance artworks. She is the editor / co-creator of the annual Teen Sequins feature at Gigantic Sequins, where she served as poetry editor from 2010-2015.Between 2015 - 2018, Sophie spent 15 months as an artist-in-residence at Art Farm in Marquette, NE. Sophie was the 2019-2020 Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she was also on faculty during 2022-2023. She was a 2019 Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University's Stadler Center for Literary Arts, and is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Tin House Workshop, the Juniper Institute, and elsewhere.Sophie was an original faculty member in the Creative Writing program at the Kinder High School for Visual and Performing Arts (Houston, TX), and mentored low-income elementary school students in Vallejo, CA. She holds degrees from the University of Houston and Emerson College, and has been working since 2012 as a freelance literary editor, copywriter, and teacher.