Sophie Panzer is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer from New Jersey. She was a finalist for the 2017 Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Prize for Young Writers, a 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee, and the winner of a 2015 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Silver Medal. She served as a fiction editor for the 2015-2016 edition of Scrivener Creative Review and attended the 2014 Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Gingerbread House, Fearsome Critters, Pulp Literature, the Claremont Review, Soliloquies Anthology, Blue Marble Review, carte blanche, Inklette, and YARN (Young Adult Review Network). She enjoys musicals and long walks in the woods.