Photo: Thomas Teal
Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to NYC in 1990. She is an MFA graduate of Portland State University with a second master's degree in creative arts therapy from the School of Visual Arts.
She lives in Portland with her two children. Mother Winter is her first book. Sophia has recently completed her first novel, I Married The Butcher To Get To The Bone, which was awarded the 2025 Miller Foundation Spark Grant for Literature.
Contact
Author/Artist:
Sophia Shalmiyev - sshalmiyev@gmail.com
Publicity at Simon & Schuster:
Kirstin Berndt - kirstin.berndt@simonandschuster.com
Elizabeth Breeden - elizabeth.breeden@simonandschuster.com
