Sofi Stambo is the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her collection of short stories A Bunch of Savages. The book will be published in the spring of 2026. Sofi was awarded the 2024 LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for short fiction, first prize in fiction in 2015 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International literary contest and was selected by WIGLEAF for their 2016 best flash top lit.
Sofi has a Master’s degree in Literature from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia, Bulgaria, and was a graduate student in Literature at City College, New York. Sofi has been published in The Kenyon Review, New England Review, American Short Fiction, Guernica, Tin House, among many others.