Sofi Stambo

Sofi Stambo is the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her collection of short stories a A Bunch of Savages, an annual award given to a first-time, first-generation immigrant author. The judges for the prize were Priyanka Champaneri, Ilan Stavans and Riva Galchen, who wrote, "Sofi Stambo’s wondrous, unpredictable, and extraordinarily perceptive humor lights up these pages, and occasionally even sets them on fire."

Sofi was awarded the 2024 LitMag Virginia Woolf Award for short fiction, first prize in fiction in 2015's Dzanc Books/Disquiet International literary contest, and Wigleadf for their 2016 Best Flash top list. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2018, her stories have appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, the Kenyon Review, the New England Review, Guernica, Agni, and elsewhere.

Sofi holds a master’s degree in Literature from Sofia University St. K. Ohridski, Bulgaria, and was a graduate student in Literature at City College, New York. Originally from Bulgaria, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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