Sophia Marina-Jerome is a poet, writer, and editor from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. She has a BA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Columbia University in the City of New York and an MFA in Literary Arts/Poetry from Brown University. Her practice enmeshes poetics, linguistics, and performance to explore interiority and versions of text as self. She is based in London.
4x4 Volume 3 (2016): “I Took the Residue for a Mouthpiece” “Closure” “Emotionalism”
4x4 Volume 5 (2018): “Coin Toss” “The Buck”
While: Notes on a Poem by Clark Coolidge (2021): “I Torque / You Torque”
Variant Literature (2022): “Past Life in Peripheral Vision”
Candela Review (2023): “I(RE)”
Ghost City Review (2023): “Quell…Quell”
TAGVVERK (2024): “Decelerate” “To Disflow Immeasurably w The Lightsource” “Midair Feel” “Self-Stabilizer” “Slow Mo Barb to The” “I Know It’s Forbidden but Still”
Second Factory Issue 6 from Ugly Duckling Presse (2024): “Magnetic Tug For What” “Traversing…Trespassing”
Prompt Press (2024): hair poems
b l u s h (2024): “Chucking the Halo” “There Is a Way to Overcome Vastness Simply by Reaching Across” “When My Voice Rocks Yours” “I Thrive Not / I Writhe” “Omittance” “To Sequin Before My Time Comes”
DUNCE CODEX (2025): “Owe as Awe” “Calamitous” “Fringe of My Fringe”
mercury firs (2025): “Well I Spring” “My Inner Inner, Quick to Wrise” “Mood Perpetual” “Typical of Me to Torrential”