Sophia Marina-Jerome is a poet, writer, and editor from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. She holds 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. As a freelancer, she has written, edited, proofed, or ghost-written diverse forms of copy, SEO-optimized content, product descriptions, blog posts, manuscripts of historical fiction, memoirs, essays, and grants. Although she has experience across all literary genres, her artistic 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 (forthcoming): “Well I Spring” “My Inner Inner, Quick to Wrise” “Mood Perpetual” “Typical of Me to Torrential”