Sophia McGovern is a creative nonfiction writer with a background in secondary education, independent publishing, and creative programming. Her writing has won awards, including a Pushcart Prize nomination, a Best of the Net nomination, the Teachers as Writers contest poetry prize, and the Tempe Community Creative Writing-Nonfiction Adult prize. Her work has been published in Motherlore Magazine, Fiction Attic Press, and elsewhere. In 2024, she received a Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts for her creative nonfiction collection, Tiny Rebellions.
She has served as an editor for many Phoenix-based literary journals and founded little somethings press, which received City of Tempe Community Arts Grants in 2022 and 2023. Her current creative programming includes hosting bookmaking workshops and launch events through little somethings press. In 2017, she was the Artist in Residence for the Mesa Arts Center and developed a poetry workshop at the Grant Woods Boys & Girls Club.
McGovern received her master’s degree in secondary education and her bachelor’s degrees in global studies and English with a concentration in creative writing from Arizona State University. She was an English Language Arts teacher at an alternative high school for four years.
She currently lives in Tempe with her writer-man, new baby, and cat, where she writes, weaves, crochets, and collects hobbies.
writer, editor, maker 