Sophia Baran is a Ukrainian-Canadian-American currently based in the mountains of New Hampshire. She received her M.F.A. in Writing with a concentration in Fiction from the University of New Hampshire and her B.A. in History from the University of Toronto. She is an alum of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute and is the 2025 Gold Winner of the Scribes Prize. When she’s not writing, you can find her running madly through the woods with her dog Sparky, or knitting yet another pair of socks.