Sonja Livingston

An award-winning essayist, Sonja Livingston's writing has earned a NYFA Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Iowa Review Award, a Susan Atefat Prize, a VanderMey Award, and an AWP Book Award for her first book, Ghostbread, which has been used in classrooms around the country. She's received grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Deming Fund for Women. Her work appears in many textbooks on creative writing, as well as in outlets such as Salon, America, the Rumpus, and in many literary journals and anthologies.

Sonja teaches creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University and splits her time between Richmond and New York State.