Sophia Stid is a poet from California. She is the author of the chapbooks But For I Am a Woman, winner of the 2022 Host Publications Chapbook Prize, and Whistler’s Mother, published by Bull City Press in 2021. A graduate of the MFA program at Vanderbilt University, Sophia has also received fellowships and support from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Collegeville Institute, and Georgetown University’s Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. She is the winner of the 2021 Barthelme Prize from Gulf Coast; recent poems and essays can be found in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, and the Kenyon Review.