Sofi Stambo is a fiction writer based in New York. An excerpt from her forthcoming novel, This Train Has Sailed, won the 2024 LitMag Virginia Woolf Award. Her short stories have won the 2015 DISQUIET Literary Prize for fiction, and been nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in Promethean, Ep;phany, The Kenyon Review, The MacGuffin, New Letters, Fourteen Hills, New England Review, Stand, American Short Fiction, Guernica, Agni, Chicago Quarterly Review, Granta Bulgaria, Tin House, Another Chicago Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, The Common, River Styx, and The Rumpus. Links to some of her publications can be found on her website www.sofistambo.com. Stambo has 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.