Poet, author, editor, translator and artist Sophia Naz has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize; in 2016 for creative nonfiction and in 2018 for poetry. Her work features in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Rattle,The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Poets, Berfrois, Singing In The Dark, Meridian, Poetry At Sangam, Poetry International Rotterdam, The Adirondack Review, The Wire, Raushniyan, Chicago Quarterly Review, Blaze Vox, Scroll, The Daily O, Cafe Dissensus, RAIOT, Ideas And Futures, Chapati Mystery, Guftugu, Pratik, Gallerie International, Coldnoon, VAYAVYA, The Bangalore Review, Madras Courier and many others.. She has authored the poetry collections Peripheries,(2015) Pointillism, (2017)Date Palms (2017) and Shehnaz, a biography (2019). Open Zero is her fourth poetry collection, published in September 2021 by Yoda Press. Sophia lives in Glen Ellen California and can be found online at www.SophiaNaz.com
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