Meet the writers

     Grace Sofia, raised to the bachata music of my mother's childhood. Dominican by blood, New Yorker by experience, and writer by soul. I am the result of late night bodega runs, with the prayers of my mother and father between my curls, and scrapes of stories and ideas on pieces of torn paper. 

     I created Lo Siento Journals as a way to express the different parts of me that can't be contained to one page. I don't fit in any one genre, any one label or identity. This space is for the essays I handwrote in my journal, and the those letters I never sent, and the stories that never found a place to land. 

     As a Dominican woman from NYC, my writing rituals include brewing a strong coffee, walking through Brooklyn with headphones on, and journaling about the stories my mother told me about as a kid. 

    I'm pursing my MFA in Creative Writing because I believe in the power of stories, to break generational cycles, comfort and confront. My work often explores difficult topics, what it means to be a woman, to survive and speak, to navigate higher education as a first-gen Latina.