About
Sofi Stambo is the winner of the 2024 Kellman Prize for Immigrant Literature. Her short story collection People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much will be published on May 26th 2026. It is illustrated by her daughter, Yana Mihaylova. She was awarded the 2024 LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for short fiction for an excerpt of her novel This Train Has Sailed. Sofi Stambo won the first prize in fiction in 2015 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International literary contest. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2018.
Sofi 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.
Sofi Stambo had been published by 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 Stix and The Rumpus.
Photo by Krasso Mihaylov.
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