about
sofía aguilar
is a Chicana writer, editor, teaching artist, community organizer, and library professional based on the traditional homelands of the Tongva, Kizh, and Chumash peoples (Los Angeles, California). Her work has appeared in the L.A. Times, Refinery29 Somos, and New Orleans Review, among other publications. Since 2015, she has performed and given talks at TEDxHuntingtonBeach, the L.A. Festival of Books, Barnes & Noble Eastchester, Wadham College at Oxford University, the Municipal Green Building Conference and Expo, the Tepoztlán Ex Convento Museum, LA Public Counsel, and New York's 9th Judicial Court District at the invitation of the Honorable Kathie E. Davidson.
As a freelance journalist, she frequently covers breaking news, politics, pop culture, media and entertainment, and representation of marginalized communities for media outlets including Latina Media, HipLatina, and Unpublished Magazine. She is the host of Creativity Café, an IG Live series uplifting writers of all backgrounds, levels, genres, and stages of their career. She is also the co-creator of the Hermosa y Libros Book Festival in collaboration with Latina poet Celeste Alyssa Gomez, which will be held inaugurally in July 2025.
As an alum of WriteGirl and a first-generation college graduate, Sofía earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she received the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and the Spencer Barnett Memorial Prize for Excellence in Latin American and Latinx Studies. In 2025, she graduated from Syracuse University with an M.S. in Library and Information Science at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. Additionally, she is the 2022 recipient of the Sandra Cisneros Fellowship from Under the Volcano, a recipient of the SVWC Writing Fellowship from the 2023 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, a 2023 Mentee in the Latinx in Publishing Writers Mentorship Program, a two-time recipient of the Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize for Fiction, a three-time recipient of the Jean Goldschmidt Kempton Scholarship for Young Writers, a two-time Best of the Net nominee, and a finalist for the Academy of American Poets College Prize.
She is the author of zine and chapbook publications including STREAMING SERVICE: golden shovels made for tv (2021) and STREAMING SERVICE: season two (2022), both self-published; LOS ANGELES: the zine (2025) and MONARCA: the zine (forthcoming August 2025), both co-edited with poet Paula Macena; CHISMOSA: the zine, co-edited with poet Celeste Alyssa Gomez (forthcoming July 2025); and amor. (Bottlecap Press, 2025).
Her debut children’s picture book Queer Latine Heroes: 25 Changemakers from Latin America and the U.S. from History and Today is forthcoming from Jessica Kingsley Publishers in September 2025. Her debut full-length poetry collection STREAMING SERVICE: the series finale is slated to release in spring 2026. She is currently at work on her first novel and fourth poetry chapbook.
*Photo credits: Renee Rodriguez
