Sophia Zaklikowski
Writer
Sophia writes prose—fiction and essays. She is working on her debut collection of short stories, Desecration. Born and raised in the West, she now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where she recently graduated from the MFA in fiction at the University of Virginia.
She writes about the corporeal and land, how the two sublimate; underbellies—darkness you have to squint into; time and grief; resistance and perseverance.
Publications
2024
2023
2022
"The Searchers" - Matchbox Magazine Volume X
2016
“Forest Fires & State Martyrs” - panelist, University of Florida Marxist Reading Group Conference “Marxism and Neoliberalism Today”, 2022
2022
Honors, & awards
Semifinalist for the 2024-2025 Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship - Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
2024
Winner of the Sydney Hall Blair Award for Excellence in Teaching - UVA Creative Writing Program
2023
Winner of the Balch Prize for Best Short Story “Conservation of Energy” - University of Virginia
2023
Battestin Fellowship Winner for “Southern Myth-Making: Uncovering Constructions of Whiteness and the Confederacy in Women’s Commonplace Books ” - Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
2023
Raven Society Fellowship Winner for “Pipelines and Personhood: Writing ‘Cli-Fi’ Realism” - UVA Raven Society
2023
Finalist in the Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Contest for Things You Can’t Sweat Out - judged by Danzy Senna, USC Dornsife Gold Line Press & Ricochet Editions
2018
Winner of the Best Creative Writing Senior Project Prize for The Searchers and Other Stories - UCSC Literature Department
2017
Winner of Best Locally-Produced Work for “Marshall” co-written with Ben Judkins and Dylan Hutchinson-Enos - Santa Cruz Film Festival
2017
Honorable Mention for Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest for “At the End Before the Beginning” - Glimmer Train
2016