Hired as the director of marketing for a top literary quarterly right out of college, Sophia Ross is passionate about contemporary literature and serving students in higher education. She has an extensive background working with multiple nonprofit organizations, as well as in higher education. Most recently, she served as the field placement coordinator for the School of Education at Seattle Pacific University. While at SPU, she helped to coordinate the School of Education’s inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion conference for K-12 educators, entitled “The Intersection of Anti-Racism and Trauma-Informed Practices.” In November of 2020, she was voted “Staff Member of the Month” for the entire university as a result of her dedication to the undergraduate and graduate students she supported throughout the pandemic.
Sophia is a third-year MFA candidate at George Mason University with a concentration in fiction writing. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for phoebe, Mason’s 50-year-old literary journal, and teaches fiction writing at the undergraduate level. In addition, she is the Coordinator of Consultant Education and Professional Development at George Mason’s Writing Center, where she works closely with forty undergraduate and graduate writing consultants. Her creative thesis is a novel based on her experience at a Christian college in upstate New York during the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States.
She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, Thomas Eckert, and their corgi, Winona.