Female

Sonya has written for the Southern Review, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tricycle, nth Position, and she has received three screenwriting awards, including the Nicholl Fellowship (QF).

“The more technological our societies, the more our walls ooze ghosts.”
--Italo Calvino

"The room, you see, is a dangerous place. Not in itself, but because you're dangerous. The psyche is dangerous. Because working with words is not like working with color or sound or stone or movement. Color and sound and stone and movement are all around us, they are natural elements, they've always been in the universe, and those who work with them are servants of these timeless materials. But words are pure creations of the human psyche. Every single word is full of secrets, full of associations, every word leads to another and another and another, down and down, through passages of dark and light. Every single word leads, in this way, to the same destination: your soul. Which is, in part, the soul of everyone. Every word has the capacity to start that journey. And once you're on it, there is no knowing what will happen."
--Michael Ventura, The Talent of the Room

"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection. She is the tenth Muse, the one without whom none of the others can function. The gift she offers you is the freedom of the second chance. Or as many chances as you’ll take."
--Margaret Atwood