Jeddie Sophronius

Jeddie Sophronius is the author of the poetry collections Interrogation Records: Poems, Happy Poems and Other Lies, Love & Sambal (The Word Works, 2024), and the chapbook Blood·Letting, a runner-up for Quarterly West's 2022 Chapbook Contest.

A Chinese-Indonesian writer from Jakarta, they received their MFA from the University of Virginia, where they currently serve as a lecturer in English. The recipient of the 2023 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize, their poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Read more of their work at nakedcentaur.com

They currently live and teach in Charlottesville, VA. They divide their time between Indonesia and the United States.

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