Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen is a graduate of Columbia University, where she earned degrees in Creative Writing and Russian Literature. She presently studies Slavic Literature at the University of Michigan, and lives with hundreds of books and one neglected houseplant. She is a winner of the 2021 Sappho Prize from Palette Poetry, and her work has appeared in Columbia Review, Poet Lore and the anthology New York’s Best Emerging Poets.