Sofi Stambo won first prize in fiction in the SLS-DISQUIET Literary Contest and was a finalist in the American Short Fiction Contest. She has a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria, and was a graduate student in literature at City College New York. Stambo’s work has appeared in Guernica, Promethean, Ep;phany, Plamuk, The Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City. (updated 10/2015)