Sofía Aguilar is a Chicana writer and editor based in Los Angeles, California. Her work has appeared in New Orleans Review, Emerge Literary Journal, and Melanin. Magazine, among other publications. Since 2015, she has performed at the L.A. Festival of Books, Barnes & Noble Eastchester, Wadham College at Oxford University, the Municipal Green Building Conference and Expo, and New York's 9th Judicial Court District at the invitation of the Honorable Kathie E. Davidson. As a freelance journalist, she frequently covers breaking news, politics, pop culture, media and entertainment, and representation of marginalized communities for media outlets including Latina Media, HipLatina, and Unpublished Magazine. She is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Mag 20/20, a multi-media magazine spotlighting creatives in their 20s.As an alum of WriteGirl and a first-generation college graduate, Sofía earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she received the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and the Spencer Barnett Memorial Prize for Excellence in Latin American and Latinx Studies. Additionally, she is the 2022 recipient of the Sandra Cisneros Fellowship from Under the Volcano, a two-time recipient of the Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize for Fiction, a three-time recipient of the Jean Goldschmidt Kempton Scholarship for Young Writers, a two-time Best of the Net nominee, and a finalist for the Academy of American Poets College Prize. Most recently, she is recognized as one of five scholarship recipients for the 2022 Lit Camp Conference, and was a guest judge for Exposition Review’s Flash 405 contest. STREAMING SERVICE: golden shovels made for tv (2021) is her self-published debut poetry chapbook. Its sequel STREAMING SERVICE: season two, also self-published, was released June 28th, 2022. She is at work on her third poetry chapbook and her first novel. Her debut children’s picture book spotlighting past and present queer heroes from Latin America and the U.S. is forthcoming from Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She is currently pursuing an M.S. in Library and Information Science at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies.