Sophfronia Scott lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, with her husband and son and where she continues to fight a losing battle against the weeds in her flower beds. She holds a BA in English from Harvard and an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Sophfronia began her writing career as a journalist for Time and People magazines. When her first novel, All I Need to Get By, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2004 she was nominated for best new author at the African American Literary Awards and hailed by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as “potentially one of the best writers of her generation.”
Her work has appeared in numerous journals including The Timberline Review, Ruminate Magazine, Barnstorm, Saranac Review, Numéro Cinq, NewYorkTimes.com and O, The Oprah Magazine. Sophfronia teaches at Regis University’s Mile High MFA as well as the Fairfield County Writers’ Studio, the Frederick Buechner Writer's Workshop at the Princeton Theological Seminary, and Fairfield University. Her forthcoming essay collection (February 2018) is entitled Love's Long Line. Her forthcoming novel, Unforgivable Love, will be published by William Morrow/HarperCollins on September 26, 2017. She also has on the way (December 2017) a spiritual memoir, This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World. She blogs at www.Sophfronia.com.
Empowerment is the cornerstone of Sophfronia’s teaching philosophy. She encourages her students to cultivate a writing life and to use their regular practice to both develop their art and articulate how they want to “show up” in the literary world.
Her work has appeared in numerous journals including The Timberline Review, Ruminate Magazine, Barnstorm, Saranac Review, Numéro Cinq, NewYorkTimes.com and O, The Oprah Magazine. Sophfronia teaches at Regis University’s Mile High MFA as well as the Fairfield County Writers’ Studio, the Frederick Buechner Writer's Workshop at the Princeton Theological Seminary, and Fairfield University. Her forthcoming essay collection (February 2018) is entitled Love's Long Line. Her forthcoming novel, Unforgivable Love, will be published by William Morrow/HarperCollins on September 26, 2017. She also has on the way (December 2017) a spiritual memoir, This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World. She blogs at www.Sophfronia.com.
Empowerment is the cornerstone of Sophfronia’s teaching philosophy. She encourages her students to cultivate a writing life and to use their regular practice to both develop their art and articulate how they want to “show up” in the literary world.
