Hello! My name is Sophie.
I’ve been a longtime head writer for CBC Radio in Toronto, where I’ve written for radio shows like q with Tom Power, Because News, GO! with Brent Bambury, and television shows like George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight.
My humour writing has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s and Reader’s Digest. One of those humour pieces, “If You Ever Hurt My Daughter, I Swear To God I’ll Let Her Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth”, was turned into a short film voiced by Jon Hamm. I’ve contributed personal essays to Hazlitt, Chatelaine, Outpost, Today’s Parent, and The Globe and Mail, and I was a 2018 finalist at Canada’s National Magazine Awards for my personal essay “A Body in Motion”, which is about how a major spinal deformity derailed my dance career. In 2023, I adapted the story into an audio piece that aired on NPR’s Snap Judgment. That same year, my personal essay “The Almost-Dad” was the runner-up for The International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir.
I’m currently writing and editing for Dr. Britt Wray, an author, researcher, and activist with Stanford University whose work focuses on the intersection of climate crisis and mental health. I write a weekly newsletter called Generation Dread, which helps people cultivate resilience, community, and adaptive coping strategies in the face of escalating climate change.
I hold an Honours B.A. in English and Psychology from the University of Toronto and a post-graduate journalism degree from Toronto Metropolitan University. I’m also a graduate of Second City’s conservatory program in improv and sketch comedy.
I currently teach satire and humour writing for Second City Toronto and Los Angeles, as well as The Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson, B.C. I have previously been a guest writing instructor at Humber College and The Sarah Selecky Writing School. Pre-pandemic, I performed stand-up comedy at local venues all over Toronto and produced a monthly show called Forever Jung where stand-up comedians do a set and then get analyzed by a therapist live on the stage.
My first children’s book, Katrina Hyena, about a laughing hyena who laughs at the wrong times, will be published by Owlkids in September of 2024.
I’m represented by Andrea Cascardi and Carolyn Forde at Transatlantic literary agency, and I live in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada with my partner and our son.