Sofia Ergas Groopman is a writer from New York City. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she received the Hopwood Award for Fiction, the Hopwood Award for Nonfiction, and this story won the Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing. Her essays, reviews, and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, Vice, and The Paris Review Daily. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their dachshund.
